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ways lead to the permanent collection, which is especially strong when it comes to Dada,
New Objectivity, Eastern Europe avant-garde and art created during the city's division.
Jüdisches Museum ticket-holders qualify for reduced admission on the same day and the
following two days, and vice versa.
MUSEUM
DEUTSCHES TECHNIKMUSEUM
Strasse 9; adult/concession €6/3, after 3pm under 18 free, audioguide €2/1;
9am-5.30pm Tue-Fri,
10am-6pm Sat & Sun; ; Gleisdreieck)
A roof-mounted 'candy bomber' (the plane used in the 1948 Berlin Airlift) is merely the
overture to the enormous and hugely engaging German Museum of Technology. Fantastic
for kids, this giant shrine to technology counts the world's first computer, an entire hall of
vintage locomotives and extensive exhibits on aviation and navigation among its top attrac-
GOOGLE MAP
;
www.sdtb.de
; Möckernstrasse 26; 9am-5.30pm Tue-Fri, 10am-6pm Sat & Sun;
Möckernbrücke, Gleisdreieck)
(enter Möckernstrasse 26, same ticket as Deutsches Technikmu-
seum) kids can participate in hands-on experiments.
PARK
PARK AM GLEISDREIECK
24hr;
Möckern-
brücke)
Berliners crave green open spaces, and this vast new park on a former railway junction is
only the latest in a string of urban oases. A railway line still separates the sprawling grounds
into the wide-open Westpark, with expansive lawns and play zones for kids, and the Ost-
park, with a nature discovery area, a half-pipe, a little maple and oak forest and even an out-
door dance floor. Historic relics like tracks, signals and ramps are smoothly integrated
throughout.
MEMORIAL
LUFTBRÜCKENDENKMAL
Nicknamed
Hungerharke
(Hunger Rake), the Berlin Airlift Memorial right outside the
former Tempelhof Airport honours those who participated in keeping the city fed and free
during the 1948 Berlin Blockade. A trio of spikes represents the three air corridors used by
the Western Allies, while a plinth bears the names of the 79 people who died in this colossal
effort.
