School Citizenship trip to Berlin

Under the GDR, the Ministry of State Security, or Stasi, spied more meticulously on the East German population than any other Eastern bloc secret police. This museum preserves Stasi headquarters as it was when the Stasi were dissolved in 1990.

Between 1945 and 1989 thousands of political prisoners were interned here by the Communist regime. Today, the prison is preserved almost untouched as a reminder of political persecution in East Germany. Guided tours are conducted by freelance members of the team and most of the...

The Marienfelde Refugee Centre Memorial is a museum documenting flight and emigration during Germany’s post-war division (1949-1990).Between 1949 and 1990, roughly four million people left East Germany (GDR) for West Germany (FRG). 1,350,000 of these individuals passed th...

Formerly the Reichstag, the seat of Germany's parliament lay empty and derelict from 1933 to 1999. Now crowned with a dome designed by British architect Sir Norman Foster, the Bundestag is once again the focus of German political life.

During the lifetime of the Berlin Wall, this was the only way for non-Germans to cross from one half of the city to the other. Today, Haus am Checkpoint Charlie preserves some of the original structure of the border crossing, including the famous sign reading 'You are leaving t...

The Story of Berlin is a multimedia exhibition with over 20 theme-rooms that lets you experience 800 years of the capital's development: from its trading centres status in the Middle Ages to the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Using modern exhibition features combined with original mo...