Berlin

UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Berlin

4 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in or near Berlin.

UNESCO sites in Berlin

• Museumsinsel (Museum Island), BerlinCultural · 1999 · 1 km

  The museum as a social phenomenon owes its origins to the Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century. The five museums on the Museumsinsel in Berlin, built between 1824 and 1930, are the realization of a visionary project …

• Berlin Modernism Housing EstatesCultural · 2008 · 3 km

  The serial property comprises seven housing estates in Berlin built between 1910 and 1933. Developed during a period of significant social, cultural, technical, and political innovation, particularly during the Weimar Re…

• Bauhaus and its Sites in Weimar, Dessau and BernauCultural · 1996 · 22 km

  Between 1919 and 1933 the Bauhaus movement revolutionized architectural and aesthetic thinking and practice in the 20th century. The Bauhaus buildings in Weimar, Dessau and Bernau are fundamental representatives of Class…

• Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and BerlinCultural · 1990 · 29 km

  With 500 ha of parks and 150 buildings constructed between 1730 and 1916, Potsdam's complex of palaces and parks forms an artistic whole, whose eclectic nature reinforces its sense of uniqueness. It extends into the dist…