Lonely Planet Pocket Berlin (Travel Guide) by Lonely Planet & Andrea Schulte-Peevers

Author:Lonely Planet & Andrea Schulte-Peevers [Planet, Lonely]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Published: 2015-07-31T21:00:00+00:00

Neuer Pavillon

This Karl Friedrich Schinkel–designed mini-palace (New Pavilion; GOOGLE MAP ; %030-320 910; www.spsg.de; Spandauer Damm 10-22; adult/concession incl audioguide €4/3; h10am-6pm Tue-Sun Apr-Oct, 10am-5pm Nov-Mar; g109, 309, M45, bRichard-Wagner-Platz, Sophie-Charlotte-Platz) was originally a summer retreat of King Friedrich Wilhelm III (r 1797–1848). Modelled on an Italian villa where the king had stayed, it displays paintings and furniture from the Romantic and Biedermeier periods.

Mausoleum

The neoclassical 1815 Mausoleum ( GOOGLE MAP ; %030-320 910; www.spsg.de; Spandauer Damm 10-22; adult/concession €2/1; h10am-6pm Tue-Sun Apr-Oct; gM45, 109, 309, bRichard-Wagner-Platz, Sophie-Charlotte-Platz) was conceived as the resting place of the much-beloved Queen Luise but was twice expanded to make room for other royals, including Emperor William I and his wife, Augusta.

Nearby: Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg

Surrealist art, including large bodies of work by René Magritte and Max Ernst alongside dreamscapes by Salvador Dalí and Jean Dubuffet, is the ammo of this museum ( GOOGLE MAP ; %030-266 424 242; www.smb.museum/ssg; Schlossstrasse 70; adult/concession €10/5; h10am-6pm Tue-Fri, 11am-6pm Sat & Sun; bSophie-Charlotte-Platz, then bus 309, bRichard-Wagner-Platz, then bus 145). Standouts among their 18th-century forerunners include Francisco Goya’s spooky etchings and the creepy dungeon scenes by Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi.

Nearby: Bröhan Museum

This fine museum ( GOOGLE MAP ; %030-3269 0600; www.broehan-museum.de; Schlossstrasse 1a; adult/concession/under 18 €8/5/free; h10am-6pm Tue-Sun; gM45, 109, 309, bSophie-Charlotte-Platz, Richard-Wagner-Platz) trains the spotlight on art nouveau, art deco and functionalism, decorative styles in vogue between 1889 and 1939. Highlights include period rooms by Hector Guimard and Peter Behrens, a Berlin Secession picture gallery, and a section dedicated to Henry van de Velde.

Nearby: Museum Berggruen

Picasso is especially well represented, with paintings, drawings and sculptures from all his major creative phases, at this delightful museum ( GOOGLE MAP ; %030-266 424 242; www.smb.museum/mb; Schlossstrasse 1; adult/concession €10/5; h10am-6pm Tue-Fri, 11am-6pm Sat & Sun; gM45, 109, 309, bRichard-Wagner-Platz, Sophie-Charlotte-Platz). Elsewhere it's off to Paul Klee's emotional world, Henri Matisse's paper cut-outs, Alberto Giacometti's skinny sculptures and a sprinkling of African art that inspired them all.

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