Berlin is a fascinating city. I had the pleasure of spending a week in Berlin last summer, and I couldn't get enough of all the museums and historical culture active and lively on the streets. The Neue Museum, built by architect Friedrich August Stüler, a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, had a Modern Makeover That Doesn’t Deny the Wounds of War
" The Neues Museum briefly reopened here last weekend (was reborn, seems more like it), and local newspapers reported that more than 35,000 Berliners, many of them waiting hours in the cold in lines stretching nearly half a mile, filed into the still empty building over three days to see it."
"The Neues Museum suffered more than any other structure there from Allied bombs dropped in 1943 and 1945"
Is this another excuse me to drop couple thousand on another Eurotrip this summer?
it's good enough.
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So, I had to comment because I spent 2 weeks backpacking through Germany this past December and I want to spread the love for this country because it BLEW MY MIND. I don't know what I was expecting, but what I was NOT expecting was to dance and sing to HAVA NAGILA (that famous Jewish song) at midnight in a Berlin pub/club with a Morrocan transsexual to my right and a very interested Turk to my left. And blonde and blue eyed and beautiful Germans all around ( one of which wanted to tattoo "To Live and Die in Los Angeles" on his chest. And...wait for it... owned a Trojans Cap) That night is by far one of my favorite memories of all of Europe.
Oh and yes, I've been to Museum Island. Walked past the construction zone for the Neues Museum. That was nice. HAHA.
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