The story of Berlin and bunker tour

The Story of Berlin provides an easy and interesting overview of Berlin over the last 800 years. It’s a doddle to find as it is on Kurfurstendamm, a main shopping street. It has many displays and uses artefacts and multimedia. Most displays focus on the years between the rise of the Third Reich through the Cold War years to the fall of the Berlin Wall. The displays bring key moments in Berlin’s history to life and provide a sense of the life of Berliners from the past. I particularly liked the mock ups of period rooms. The Museum also includes a tour of a real underground bunker, which is interesting and very disconcerting. You learn there are not enough bunkers and that that they are useless anyway as you wouldn’t survive that long in one of them.