Germany is the fourth most visited country in the European Union, especially the cities of Berlin and Hamburg. Its many monuments and emblematic buildings are the most visited by foreign tourists and also by Germans themselves. Among these buildings, some of its museums are noteworthy, and we are here to talk to you about them today. We bring you 5 museums to visit in Germany with all kinds of details about what you can find in each of them.
Ballinstadt: the Emigrant Museum, Hamburg
This museum has a total of 3 pavilions in which you will find all kinds of stories and historical events happened by German emigrants. In a space of 2.000 m² exhibition, BallinStadt's award-winning design offers interactive elements, multimedia stations for experimentation and more than 1.500 original exhibits.
If you are in Hamburg and want to visit the museum, you should know that its hours are as follows:
- From the month of November to the full month of March, you can visit it from 10:00 am to 16:30 pm.
- From April to October the hours are a little longer and you can visit it from 10:00 am to 18:00 pm
Berlin Jewish Museum
If you visit Berlin, you have an almost obligatory stop at this museum, which collects almost two millennia of German-Jewish history inside. Its abstract and modern building is the work of the architect Daniel Libeskind and in it we will find a permanent research exhibition of everything related to the Jewish-German history of the country.
It is classified in 13 different eras ranging from the Middle Ages to the present, and where they are exhibited from the most everyday objects to the most artistic: photos, letters, interactive elements and media stations. When you leave this museum you will be very clear about what Jewish culture represents in Germany today, as well as what it represented in each era over time.
There are times when they do special exhibitions and itineraries to better complete their program.
If you visit this museum you can do it at the following hours:
- Tuesday to Sunday: from 10:00 a.m. to 20:00 p.m.
- Monday: from 10:00 to 22:00.
Its price is 8 euros for adults and 3 euros for students.
Old National Gallery of Berlin
Another very important building in Berlin is the Old National Gallery, which is located in neoclassical building from 1876 that makes up the Old National Gallery. But what does this gallery contain? Artistic works of the XNUMXth century, specifically.
This museum on 3 floors and in each of them you will see the following:
- The first floor consists of an entrance where you can see a map with each of the floors and what you will find in it.
- On the second floor you will see certain realistic paintings and sculptures from the XNUMXth century, in addition to the works of the well-known Berlin painter Adolph menzel.
- And finally, on the third floor, you will see an atrium adorned with statues that leads to the following rooms in which works by the so-called German Romans of the early XNUMXth century and French Impressionists are exhibited. You will also find works by prominent painters such as Max Lieberman, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Caspar David Friedrich and Carl Blechen.
This museum is especially recommended for art lovers. Its entry price is 10 euros for adults and 5 for students. And its schedule is as follows:
- Tuesday to Sunday: from 10:00 a.m. to 18:00 p.m. (Thursday until 20:00 p.m. and closed Mondays).
Germanic Roman Museum in Cologne
Although this museum is of recent construction in terms of the building that houses it, inside contains everything you need to know to understand the story. In it, the entire development of the city of Cologne is exposed in detail until it became a city under Roman law and capital of the imperial province of Lower Germania.
This museum is a whole place of research, which is made up of the archaeological archive of the city of Cologne and its entire public collection. This museum is one of the most visited in all of Germany.
Its entry price is 5 euros.
Hessenpark Open Air Museum
This open-air museum makes up a total of 60 hectares where you can see from a farm, the house of the laborers, the tavern, the stables and a long etcetera of more than 400 years of history. It is the typical museum to visit with the whole family since it is enlivened with visits, screenings and workshops that complete the period of exhibitions in Hessenpark.
His visiting hours are every day from 10 in the morning until 5 in the afternoon.