Did you know that Berlin has more than 140 Museums? In this third part we will take a walk through the medieval Museums Island.

I strongly recommend using the S-Bahn to go there (station "Friedrichstrasse"). Its just amazing when you recognize how the S-Bahn passes between two of the five Museums.

VIIII. Museumsinsel (Museums Island)

Considering that Berlin has more than 140 museums, this area is just a tiny part of it. But, the consort of museums found on the Museum Island is a unique cultural inheritance which unites five important museum buildings into a heterogeneous but harmonic ensemble on the River Spree. The oldest museum complex in Berlin suffered more than 70 % destruction in the Second World War. The painstaking work of restoration is a long way from being completed. The island contains the following five edifices: