Berlin - Capital City

Culture

Berlin is a city of cultural superlatives: three opera houses, two concert halls and eight symphony orchestras - more than in any other city in the world. Over 150 theaters and playhouses offer boulevard theater, classic opera, classics of world literature as well as the young creative 'Off-Scene'. The Friedrichstadtpalast, Europe"s largest and most modern revue theater, four major musical theaters and numerous cabarets also provide top class entertainment every night.

The annual highlights of the cultural calendar include the 'Berlinale', the International Film Festival, the Theatertreffen, the Berlin Festival Weeks, the Jazz Festival and the Tanzfest. Among the events with special appeal are the "Lange Nacht der Musseen", when most museums host late-night open house and the summer Open Air Events on the Gendarmenmarkt.

Berlin has over 170 museums - more than the number of rainy days in a year. They exhibit the unique and the extraordinary - the Egyptian Nofretete, the Greek Pergamon Altar, the painters of the 'Brücke' and the 'Bauhaus', and works by Baselitz and Beuys. The Berggruen Collection shows works by Picasso and his contemporaries and the Hamburger Bahnhof, a former train station, houses the new Museum of Contemporary Art. The Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind became an attraction to the public because of its distinctive architecture even before its official opening in September 2001.

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