Top rated Local history museums in Berlin, Germany to elevate your visit (Updated January, 2024)

Top rated Local history museums in Berlin

Experience the best that Berlin has to offer with our curated list of top-rated places. Sorted by average review scores from venues boasting over 30 reviews, these establishments promise exceptional quality and experiences to elevate your visit in the city. This list contains 25 places from Local history museum category.

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Förderverein Gutshaus Mahlsdorf e.V. Gründerzeitmuseum

Local history museum

1800s decor & musical instruments collected by a trans woman, plus exhibits on her life story.

4.80 (327 reviews)

Haus Schwarzenberg

Art gallery

👍👍 One of the lesser-known sights in Berlin. The entrance is a little hidden directly opposite the Apple Store. Super nice street art - the whole walls are full of stickers and other adhesive installations. Entry to the farm is free of charge. Access is barrier-free. If you have a little more time, you...

4.70 (600 reviews)

Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial

Local history museum

Museum in a former East German prison and interrogation site, a memorial to political prisoners.

4.60 (9.1K reviews)

Museum Berlin-Karlshorst

War museum

Museum documenting the war on the Eastern Front in WWII, on site of the German surrender in 1945.

4.60 (1.4K reviews)

Dokumentationszentrum Berliner Mauer

Museum

👍👍 If you visiting Berlin Wall memorial then must try to visit Berlin Wall museum as well. It’s free and have very nice photo exhibition. On top of the building, there’s a observatory platform to have a bird eye view of surrounding areas specifically the memorial park.

4.60 (899 reviews)

Museum Knoblauchhaus

Museum

👍 This place is very interesting. First of all is free. You can enter anytime and as much as you want. You can live a tip if you want, but it has so much history inside. You can see how the architecture, decoration, furniture, clothing, etc, was during that period, and learn something more. If histor...

4.60 (356 reviews)

Kurt Mühlenhaupt Museum

Museum

👍 Great, spacious Berlin backyard with the charm of bygone years. Theater venues, artists' workshops. The Mühlenhaupt Museum will have its new location here in the foreseeable future. Addendum 2020: The museum has had its premises here since the summer. Not far away, at Chamissoplatz 8, where Kurt Müh...

4.60 (69 reviews)

Museum at the Kulturbrauerei

Museum

Cultural museum with exhibits illuminating the daily lives of East Germans in the 1970s & 1980s.

4.50 (1.5K reviews)

Visitor Center of the Berlin Wall Memorial

Visitor center

Multimedia exhibition on Berlin's division & its infamous wall, plus access to the memorial.

4.50 (1.3K reviews)

Zille Museum

Local history museum

👍👍 Super

4.50 (125 reviews)

Museumswohnung WBS 70

Local history museum

Former German Democratic Republic apartment turned museum, with period furnishings & artifacts.

4.50 (100 reviews)

Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge

Technology museum

👍 The Kesselhaus Herzberge Museum is part of the listed complex of the EV.Krankenhaus Queen Elisabeth Herzberge and shows over 100 years of industrial history. Old heavy machines that look like something out of a Jules Verne novel can be viewed here. There is a large room upstairs that can even be ren...

4.50 (85 reviews)

Bezirksmuseum Marzahn-Hellersdorf

Local history museum

👍👍 Very informative, especially the photos of the beginnings of the new buildings in Marzahn

4.50 (58 reviews)

Tempelhof Museum

Local history museum

👍👍 The group really liked the exhibition, and we were also surprised by the free entry because the exhibition was very well filled with information and stories. I personally thought it was great that you could touch the exhibits and use them yourself. The only (small) negative point: There are no Engli...

4.50 (52 reviews)

St. Nicholas' Church Museum

History museum

13th-century church, ruined by WWII bombs, rebuilt as a venue for events, concerts & organ recitals.

4.40 (3.8K reviews)

Ephraim Palace

Museum

Rococo building with a museum that houses exhibits on the history & culture of Berlin's 800 years.

4.40 (584 reviews)

DDR Museum

Museum

Everyday life in pre-unified Germany showcased in museum of interactive exhibits.

4.30 (22K reviews)

Teufelsberg

Art gallery

👍👍 Stunning graffiti art works around this vicinity. It’s so beautiful to see how a place that was used as a spy Centre etc , had become very artistic and tells such an intense story. The energy here is quite intense, it’s also a great place to take photos artistically. You can tell that rave partie...

4.30 (5.4K reviews)

Museum Neukölln

Local history museum

19th-century museum showcasing local history, culture & art through exhibits & guided tours.

4.30 (211 reviews)

Museum Lichtenberg in the Stadthaus

Local history museum

👍👍 Very beautiful exhibition designed with great attention to detail. You immediately feel like you have been transferred back to the previous world of work. As a former Eletroköhler I am also happy that the Kulturhaus has been restored. Thanks again for the great exhibition.

4.30 (101 reviews)

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Top rated Local history museums in Berlin, Germany