Wikimedia Conference 2012/Sightseeing/March 28

Potsdam, Spandau and Charlottenburg, Marzahn, or Museums

Tour 1 – Potsdam

See en:Potsdam.

• en:St. Nicholas' Church, Potsdam
• en:Stadtschloss, Potsdam
• en:New Garden, Potsdam (with en:Cecilienhof: 6.—/5— €)
• en:Belvedere auf dem Pfingstberg
• de:Russische Kolonie Alexandrowka (Russian colony)
• en:Dutch Quarter
• St Peter and Paul Church
• Brandenburg Gate (Potsdam)
• en:Sanssouci Park (with en:Sanssouci, en:New Palace (Potsdam) and further palaces; 12.—/8.— € [maybe some extra fees for some palaces])
• possible visit: de:Filmmuseum Potsdam

Tour 2 – Spandau and Charlottenburg

• en:Spandau Citadel/en:Spandau Prison (4.50/2.50 €)
• en:Rathaus Spandau

a)

• en:Charlottenburg Palace (open til 5 pm; 12.—/8.— € up to 18.—/13.— €)

b)

• en:RAF Gatow with en:Luftwaffenmuseum der Bundeswehr (only open til 4 pm; entrance free)
• en:Ferry transport in Berlin over the en:Großer Wannsee (regular bus ticket)
• en:Wannsee Conference House and en:Liebermann villa (if time is left we can pass these houses; first one is entrance free and closes at 6 pm)

Tour 3 – Marzahn

See en:Marzahn.

• starting at de:Bahnhof Berlin-Marzahn, visiting Berlin's fifth largest shopping centre, Marzahn's mall and leisure centre
• by train to Berlin's largest tramway depot, second largest housing area, the de:Wuhle
• en:Erholungspark Marzahn (3.50/1.50 €; will take about two hours)
• walking to the old village Alt-Marzahn, Marzahn's post mill
• walking through high-rise buildings to Springpfuhl (a pool)
• en:Die Pyramide

Tour 4 – Museums

Berlin has a lot of interesting museums.

• en:German Museum of Technology (will take at least four hours; open til 5:30 pm; 4.50/2.50 €)
• de:Museum für Kommunikation Berlin (Museum for Communication Berlin; maybe two hours, open til 8 pm; 3.—/1.50 €)
• en:Jewish Museum Berlin (will take at least seven [!] hours = the whole day; open til 6 pm; 5.—/2.50 €)
• those ones left over on March Wikimedia Conference 2012/Sightseeing/March 27 and Wikimedia Conference 2012/Sightseeing/March 29

Others:

• en:Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin
• en:Berlin Musical Instrument Museum
• en:Checkpoint Charlie Museum
• see the list: en:List of museums and galleries in Berlin

Participants

Please add which tour you prefer or if you want to mix parts of tour 2, 3 or 4.

• —DerHexer (Talk) 19:39, 16 February 2012 (UTC) (no preference)
• Pakeha (talk) 10:25, 15 March 2012 (UTC) (not 100% sure yet, preference: either 1 or parts of 2 and 4)
• Jakob Hammarbäck (WM Sweden) (number 4 I think)