Berlin Museums
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Museums have always been a big part of the tourist experience whichever new town, city, state or country it is you are exploring. Whether you would pick up some entertaining trivial tidbits or be overwhelmed by centuries-worth of knowledge, the point is that you would exit a museum bringing with you a new experience, learning or insight. So clearly, museums can be vital when one wishes to experience and know a newly visited place.
For the tourists and visitors of Berlin, they would find no trouble finding a museum to explore and learn something from. Rather, they might have trouble trying to find the time to experience all 170 plus museums and collections which the capital city of Berlin, Germany is home to.
Historical museums serve many functions. To tourists and visitors, historical museums can provide facts that would a transform a seemingly boring, dilapidated artifact or antiquated building into an object of former grandeur or a site of ancient glory. To history buffs, historical museums are physical evidences of past events and incidences that we did not live early enough to experience. And to local citizens, historical museums serve as a reminder of their roots and a treasure house of the country's historic relics.
Some of Berlin's historical museums include the Altes Museum or the Old World Museum, Jewish Museum, the Pergamon Museum, the Deutsches Historisches Museum and the Egyptian Museum.
Science and technology museums also abound in Berlin City. The Natural History Museum, the Humboldt Natural Museum, and the German Museum of Technology, Berlin are just some of the Berlin museums which focus on the fields of science and technology.
Of course, art museums and galleries can also be found and Berlin and there are in fact quite a number of them, some feature German artists and craftsmen while others house works of art from all over the globe. Berlin museums include the Old National Gallery, the Bode Museum, Museum of Indian Art, New National Gallery, and Old Master's Gallery to name a few.
Berlin also has a variety of other museums which can appeal to people of all ages, races, nationality, gender, religious beliefs and social status. The Puppet Theatre Museum of Berlin for instance is a museums which both kids and kids at heart would enjoy visiting. The Hamburger Bahnhof is a modern artist's haven, the Homosexual Museum is a historic house that follows homosexuality's 200 year history in Germany, while the Beate Uhse Erotic Museum is said to be the biggest erotic museum in the planet.
