Berlin's museums house world cultural treasure such as the Pergamon Altar and Berlin's most beautiful woman, Nefertiti, masters from Giotto to Caravaggio, from Breughel to Caspar David Friedrich, from Joseph Beuys to the "young wild ones" like Baselitz, Haring and others. The museums function also as the city's memory: they document the dynamic history of a city torn apart, from the grandeur of old Prussia to Raisin Bombers.

Berlin is a city of museums. Over 170 museums house history, art and knowledge, creating a unique museum landscape. It is a dynamic one that continues to grow at a breathtaking tempo. In the nineties, the sensational openings for the Berggruen Collection at Stülerbau at Charlottenburg Palace with its "Picasso and his Era" exhibit and the new Museum of Contemporary Art at the Hamburger Bahnhof put Berlin on the map as an international art metropolis.

June of 1998 saw the opening of one of the world's largest and most important museums of old masters with the highly-praised new home for the Picture Gallery at the Cultural Forum in the Tiergarten.

The new film museum at Potsdamer Platz quickly proved itself a major public attraction. This is where articles of Marlene Dietrich's estate have been made part of a permanent exhibit. In September of 2001, Europe's largest Jewish museum opened.

Daniel Libeskind's spectacular new building on Lindenstraße was a hit even before the permanent exhibit opened. The building's unique architectural design of a burst Star of David and the highly praised permanent exhibition have drawn over one million visitors in the museum's second year.