Best Historic Places in Berlin
1. Hotel Orania Berlin, Berlin
Historic 1912 building on Oranienplatz filled with warm wood and live music. The open ground floor pairs jazz concerts on a Steinway grand with a kitchen roasting Peking-style duck.
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Historic 1912 building on Oranienplatz filled with warm wood and live music. The open ground floor pairs jazz concerts on a Steinway grand with a kitchen roasting Peking-style duck.
Original medicine cabinets and dark woodwork wrap the bustling dining room of the former Oranien-Apotheke. Dinner service pairs seasonal plates from the restaurant's farm with natural wines.
Contemporary art gallery housed in a former cemetery administrator's residence on quiet, historic grounds. Exhibitions, mostly photography, are staged in the empty rooms, using the building's scarred walls as part of the installation.
Vast private collection of vintage synthesizers where every instrument is meant to be played. The rooms are arranged by decade, with recording stations set up for hands-on experimentation.
Landmarked dining room where modern art hangs beneath high wood ceilings and gothic stained-glass windows. The menu is similarly composed, serving market-fresh Mediterranean dishes like Fines de Claire oysters and saddle of venison.
Bar and café in the former US Air Force casino of Tempelhof Airport, styled like a 1960s airline lounge. The room fills up for Italian aperitivo, classic cocktails, and its popular live jazz nights.
Grand Art Nouveau theater from 1908, now a key stage for contemporary international dance and performance. The program is avant-garde and globally sourced – most productions include English surtitles.
Mint-green historic kiosk on Steinplatz functioning as a public platform for local art. Open-air film screenings and workshops fill the plaza, fueled by natural wine and Ethiopian coffee with popcorn.
Contemporary art museum set within a preserved 19th-century railway station. Its vast, industrial train shed now serves as the main hall, a dramatic space for monumental installations and ambitious temporary shows.
Sunlit, terraced galleries at the Kulturforum hold five centuries of European musical history. The collection spans from Prussian court flutes to a massive 1929 Wurlitzer organ played during regular live demos.
Art association in a heritage-listed GDR building showcasing contemporary artists with ties to Eastern Europe. Its exhibitions of photography and sculpture directly engage with the surrounding architecture and the region's complex histories
Historic half-timbered cottage set inside a quiet park, serving coffee and cake from a small, bright room. Most seating is outside on a sunny terrace surrounded by rose bushes.
