Right in the heart of Berlin lies the Museumsinsel, an island full of museums and galleries with many famous exhibits of history and art. It takes only a 10 minutes walk from my home to get there. Actually my favorite diner is almost in sight of the Bode-Museum.It's strange: in the last years I did visit many more galleries and museums outside Berlin than in Berlin, maybe it's too close. So if the bad weather starts after the (hopefully) long lasting summer, it's time for a visit of the exhibiotion places of Berlin. I have to look at the beautiful paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and Arnold Böcklin in the Alte Nationalgalerie, at the famous etchings of Albrecht Dürer in the Kupferstichkabinett and at the remains of other great cities like the Pergamon Altar and the Isthar Gate of Babylon in the Pergamon Museum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_Island
Photos: Berliner Dom (top) and Pergamon Museum (left) in the evening sun
