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This hulking behemoth is a fine example of Stalinist Zuckerbäckerstil (wedding-cake style)
architecture, although a tall wall allows only glimpses of the compound.
MUSEUM
MADAME TUSSAUDS
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 01806-545 800; www.madametussauds.com/berlin ; Unter den Linden 74;
adult/child 3-14 €21/16; 10am-7pm Sep-Jul, 10am-8pm Aug, last admission 1hr before closing;
100, Brandenburger Tor, Brandenburger Tor)
No celebrity in town to snare your stare? Don't fret: at this legendary wax museum the
world's biggest pop stars, Hollywood legends, sports heroes and historical icons stand still -
very still - for you to snap their picture. Sure, it's an expensive haven of kitsch and camp
but where else can you have a candle-light dinner with George Clooney, play piano with
Beethoven or test your IQ against Albert Einstein? Avoid wait times and save money by
buying tickets online.
GALLERY
KUNSTHALLE DEUTSCHE BANK
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 030-202 0930; www.deutsche-bank-kunsthalle.de ; Unter den Linden 13-15;
adult/concession/child €4/3/free, free Mon; 10am-8pm; 100, 200, Französische Strasse)
This small exhibition hall is a platform for contemporary art, especially from emerging art
centres in Africa, China, India and South America. The three to four exhibits per year (often
in cooperation with international museums like the Tate Modern) seek to push artistic
boundaries and examine the effects of a globalised society.
BUILDING
HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITÄT
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; 030-2093 2951; Unter den Linden 6; 100, 200, TXL)
Marx and Engels studied here and the Brothers Grimm and Albert Einstein taught here, at
Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 and housed in a palace built by Frederick the
Great for his brother Heinrich. Statues of the uni's founder, philosopher Wilhelm von Hum-
boldt, and his explorer brother Alexander flank the main entrance.
Until the 1950s it produced plenty of Nobel Prize winners, including Max Planck (phys-
ics, 1918) and Albert Einstein (physics, 1921). The last prize went to Werner Forssmann for
medicine in 1956. These days, some 33,500 students try to pick up on this illustrious legacy.
MONUMENT
REITERDENKMAL FRIEDRICH DER GROSSE
( MAP GOOGLE MAP ; Unter den Linden 6; 100, 200, TXL)
Seemingly surveying his domain, Frederick the Great cuts a commanding figure on horse-
back in this famous 1850 monument that kept sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch busy for a
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