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showcase his vision, while the ground floor is essentially a shrine to the man. Highlights in-
clude his partially recreated office in Monte Carlo, his first camera (an Agfa Box he bought
aged 12) and his blue Jeep (dubbed the Newton-Mobile).
MUSEUM
KÄTHE-KOLLWITZ-MUSEUM
sion €6/3, audioguide €3; 11am-6pm; Uhlandstrasse)
This exquisite museum is devoted to the artist Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945), whose social
and political awareness lent a tortured power to her lithographs, graphics, woodcuts, sculp-
tures and drawings. Highlights include the antihunger lithography
Brot!
(Bread!, 1924) and
the woodcut series
Krieg
(War, 1922-23).
Other recurring themes include motherhood and death; sometimes the two are strangely
intertwined, as in works that show death as a nurturing figure, cradling its victims. There's
also a copy of Gustav Seitz' Kollwitz sculpture that sits on Kollwitzplatz in Prenzlauer
Berg. Special exhibits supplement the permanent exhibit twice annually.
MUSEUM
STORY OF BERLIN
via Ku'damm Karree mall; adult/concession €12/9;
10am-8pm, last admission 6pm;
Uhland-
strasse)
This multimedia museum breaks down 800 years of Berlin history into bite-size chunks that
are easy to swallow but substantial enough to be satisfying. Each of the 23 rooms uses
sound, light, technology and original objects to zero in on a specific theme or epoch in the
city's history, from its founding in 1237 to the fall of the Berlin Wall. A creepily fascinating
highlight is a tour (also in English) of a still functional atomic bunker beneath the building.
MUSEUM
DAS VERBORGENE MUSEUM
030-313 3656;
www.dasverborgenemuseum.de
;
Schlüter-
strasse 70; adult/concession €2/1;
3-7pm Thu & Fri, noon-4pm Sat & Sun;
Ernst-Reuter-Platz,
Savignyplatz)
Founded by a pair of feminist artists and art historians, the nonprofit Hidden Museum has a
unique focus: largely forgotten works by early-20th-century women artists, mostly from
Germany. Past exhibits have trained the spotlight on expressionist artist Ilse Heller-Lazard
and photographer Henriette Grindat. Curators mount about two exhibits annually, which run
for three or four months each. At other times, the museum is closed.
