Berlin has many Wonderful Smaller Art Museums
The Topography of Terror While Museum Island is home to the collection of Berlin’s Stadtmuseum, which covers the history of art from ancient times to the start of the 20 th century, it is not the only place to see good art. But if your interests go into the 20 th and 21 st centuries, you will have to leave the Mitte and venture out into other parts of Berlin. Kurfürstendam Southwest of The Tiergarten, near the Zoological Garden is the Kurfürstendam neighborhood, home to several excellent museums. I wrote about the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in an earlier blog post . Kollwitz was a German artist during the first half of the 1900’s whose work focused on the struggles of women, children and workers against oppression. © Raimond Spekking / via wikipedia commons Nearby is the Amerika Haus-C/O Berlin . Amerika Haus was built in 1946 by the United States Military Command to house a library of American books at a time when Berlin’s cultural resources had not yet rec...