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                <title>Woerlitzer Landscape Park</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Just an hour outside Berlin by car lies a real hidden gem. The Woerlitzer Park – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – is one of the most dazzling examples of landscape gardening in continental Europe.  Having been inspired by a trip to England, Prince Leopold III started work on the 122 hectare public garden in 1764. Now it stands – a stunning series of labyrinthine paths, winding rivers and ponds – as an oasis of calm, and a true work of art.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Gallerie Eigen + Art</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[This rustic gallery displays a collection of experimental art, especially by artists from what used to be East Germany.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A large and wonderful collection of Islamic art throughout Islamic history.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Beate-Uhse Erotik Museum</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Less a museum in the British sense and more an art gallery, with a range or erotic work, from Japanese scrolls to pieces by Georg Grosz and Weimar-era pornographic cartoons that were used as political satire. Far more interesting than the Sex Museum in Amsterdam.]]></description>
                
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                <title>East Side Gallery</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Over 1km of Berlin Wall decorated with graffiti art. The best place to view the remaining wall - no tourists]]></description>
                
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                <title>Tacheles, a bar and art installation/gallery</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[In the old east part of town, this is a large old, somewhat derelict and entertaining art workshop. It has a lively bar, with huge garden and installations.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Art house squat</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A nightclub/alternative art gallery/run-down building. It has a silly number of bars, sofas on the roof, films projected onto the opposite building and old cars to sit and drink in. Popular with laid-back locals &amp; travellers.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Hamburger Bahnhof</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Berlin's answer to Tate Modern. This fantastic museum for contemporary art sits in a old railway station (hence the Bahnhof). With works from Lichtenstein to Joseph Beuys it's a must for all modern art lovers.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Columbiahalle</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[The Columbiahalle seems to one of Berlin's premier venues, this autumn hosting acts such as Paul Weller and The White Stripes. On seeing Sigur Rós there this July, I found the Columbiahalle to be clean, full of helpful staff, and operating a quick and easy token system at the inexpensive bar.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Karl-Marx-Allee</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[See the "last built European Boulevard" by taking a walk eastwards from the astonishing Alexanderplatz. Take a look at the Cinema International with its fabulous lobby. By passing the Strausberger Platz you will enter Karl-Marx-Allee with its splendid and opulent façades (built in the early 1950s by socialist workers using war ruins). It was east Berlin's pride and aorta and, now again, there are nice cafes, art galleries and the street's sheer monumentality will take your breath.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Gemäldegalerie</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[One of Europe’s greatest – if less well-known - art galleries, the Gemäldegalerie contains stunning works by Cranach, Dürer and Holbein. Usually empty. My favourite picture is The Fountain of Youth, by Lucas Cranach the Elder. It’s the one where a group of crones climb into a large basin and emerge as nymph-like young women. I find it rather erotic. Shut on Mondays.]]></description>
                
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                <title>The Pergamon Museum</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[If you ever wondered where most of ancient Mesopotomia ended up, here’s your answer. The Pergamon contains numerous treasures looted by German archaeologists, including the Ishtar Gate – Babylon’s extraordinary front door - and the Pergamon Altar - an amazing Elgin Marbles-style frieze stolen from what is now Turkey.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Kunst + Eis</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Few things beat a sweet, creamy coffee on a sunny winter morning in Berlin and this café also has delicious cakes, plus organic ice cream so good you want to eat it even when it's cold outside. The cafe gets the sun all day so is perfect for reading a newspaper and watching the world go by. <br><br>It also has art for sale - hence the name - some original modern-style paintings of Berlin that I just love.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Marx-Engels Forum</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[Funky out-sized statues of founding fathers of Communism, looking very much like you favourite uncles when you've done something of which they're very proud, but they don't want all the praise going to your head. I defy you to see them and not want to stroke them. Surrounded by brushed metal pillars with black-and-white photos of suitably rallying Communist incidents. Gorgeous in the winter when there's snow on the ground.]]></description>
                
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                <title>Schaufenster - Kunstverein Buscha 11 e.V.</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A project and exhibition space, showing art works of the members of a Thuringian art association. Also presenting the project in Buscha, an old farm that shall be turned into an artist-in-residence.]]></description>
                
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                <title>NGBK</title>
                
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                <description><![CDATA[A contemporary art gallery in Kreuzberg, showing interesting innovative work by up and coming artists.  Free.]]></description>
                
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