A historic illustration from 1885 shows the Altes Museum, the oldest building of Berlin's Museum Island complexImage: imageBROKER/picture alliance At the time, after decades of war, Prussia was ...

Swimmers have jumped back into a Berlin waterway where swimming was banned a century ago because its pollution could make ...

Museum Island was in ruins after World War II. The UNESCO World Heritage site was reborn thanks to a master plan.

Around 200 people jumped into the slow-moving, greenish water Tuesday to show that it's not only clean enough, but also lots ...

There’s a push by Berlin swimmers to get back into the water a century after the city banned swimming in the Spree River ...

Spring and summer are the obvious choices to enjoy one of Europe’s greenest cities. Now that the winters of knee-deep snow ...

Looking for the best destination to make celebrating a wedding anniversary extra special? Aidy Smith selects the best LGBT+ ...

Marion Ackermann is stepping into Germany’s biggest museum job at a time of great upheaval at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation—a culture behemoth encompassing 2,400 employees and 25 ...

Across the city, artists transform sites of surveillance, repression and bureaucracy into spaces for dignity, solidarity and ...

The museum, which is housed on Berlin's museums' island, is expected to be ready to open again in 2009. It was built between 1843 and 1859, but was damaged during World War II and has been left unused ...