Wikimedia Conference 2012/Sightseeing/March 27
Museum Island (UNESCO world heritage)
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- Where will we meet: en:Berlin Friedrichstraße station, Burger King
- When will we meet: 9:30 am
- Where will we split: en:Berlin Friedrichstraße station
- When will we split: about 6:00 pm for dinner (certainly, we can eat together!)
- How much you have to pay: 16/8.- EUR up to 22/14.- EUR
- Choose your tour: This day, Martin offers different tours that can be chosen by you; majority wins. ;o)
- tour
- en:Angela Merkel's residence ;o)
- en:Lustgarten
- en:Pergamon Museum (with en:Pergamon Altar, en:Market Gate of Miletus, en:Ishtar Gate, en:Mshatta facade, and special exposition etc.)
- en:Altes Museum (with the en:Antikensammlung Berlin, en:Duenos Inscription, en:Severan Tondo, etc.)
- en:Neues Museum (with the en:Egyptian Museum of Berlin including the en:Nefertiti Bust, the en:Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Berlin) including en:Priam's Treasure, etc.)
We will have dinner meanwhile at Berlin Friedrichstraße station because these exhibitions will take a lot of time (we could stay there the whole day!). Entrance fee for all museums on en:Museum Island (UNESCO World Heritage) is 16.- EUR, discounted admission 8.- EUR (students and others) — do not forget evidence!
Afterwards we can visit
- en:Bode Museum and/or en:Alte Nationalgalerie (included in the entrance fee) and/or en:Berlin Cathedral at Museum Island (depends on our remaining time)
- en:Deutsches Historisches Museum (five minutes to go from Museum Island); 6.- EUR, no discount
- en:Museum für Naturkunde (the largest mounted dinosaur skeleton in the world, "Berlin Specimen" of Archaeopteryx lithographica, etc.); 6.- EUR, discounted admission 3.50 EUR (students and others) — going through en:Oranienburger Straße, passing en:New Synagogue (Berlin) (free entrance)
- participants
- —DerHexer (Talk) 19:35, 16 February 2012 (UTC) (tour 3)
- Pakeha (talk) 10:20, 15 March 2012 (UTC) (tour 2)