Finally Again. Berlin.

For the longest time now, we have been waiting to share this news with you. Finally, Berlin is opening up again! With falling case numbers and an increasing speed in vaccinations, the city has been officially loosening its restrictions. This means museums can be visited again, tour operators can offer guided tours, our gastronomy has opened up, and hotels are scheduled to open to all travelers on June 11th. Of course, this will all happen with the proper hygiene measures in place for visitors to have a safe trip to our city.

So what's new in Berlin in 2021?

For many years the new Humboldt Forum was one of the largest construction sites in Europe and now represents one of the biggest attractions. In the heart of the historical Mitte district, right opposite the Museum Island, the new Forum for Art, Culture and Science covers 36,000 square metres. The architecture: a high-contrast combination of ultra-modern building elements with the reconstructed façades of the baroque-style former Berlin Palace. The new forum changes the cityscape and city life in the heart of Berlin.

Right in front of the main entrance to the Humboldt Forum, visitors can get a feel for how things will look in the cultural Mitte district in the future. A wide plinth is in the works and in 2021 the gigantic shell of the Monument to Freedom and Unity will be installed on top of it: a 50-metre-long movable monument accessible to visitors which commemorates the peaceful revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. The kinetic shell should then be open to all from spring 2022.

What's more, the important museums and attractions in the heart of Berlin can be reached within minutes, conveniently and accessibly for the first time in 2021. Since December 2020, the new underground line 5 has been running right through Berlin's historic centre. Three new, ultra-modern underground stations have been built between Alexanderplatz and the Brandenburg Gate: Rotes Rathaus, Unter den Linden and Museumsinsel. The underground station Museumsinsel, vaulted with a bright starry sky, will not be operational until summer 2021.

The Berlin museums will present one new opening and two reopenings in 2021:

After the complete redesign of the Jewish Museum Berlin in 2020, the new ANOHA children's museum, the Jewish Museum's children's world, will welcome all Berlin guests of primary school and nursery age in 2021. It is scheduled to open on 27 June 2021. The focus is on Noah's Ark, a large wooden round ship, circled and flown around by around 150 animals: artistic sculptures made of sustainable materials there to be explored, understood and accompanied.

The big highlight in 2021: the reopening of the Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum is planned for August. The famous steel and glass building by Mies van der Rohe, which has been fully renovated and modernised since 2015. In 2021, masterpieces of the 20th century will again be on display here.