Art & Design Tour of Berlin

(5 Days - Departs Daily on a Private Basis)
Berlin & Potsdam

This exclusive private tour features the best of art and design in and around Berlin, the vibrant capital of Germany and one of Europe's most important cultural centers. It includes flexible private touring of Berlin's most important cultural attractions, as well as customized touring of top art museums, and the best of the city's historical, modern and contemporary architecture.

During flexible private touring, visit Berlin landmarks that use traditional and contemporary design to relate important stories of this great city. Highlights include the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag (with a glass dome designed by Norman Foster), the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Egon Eiermann), the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Peter Eisenman) and the Jewish Museum (Daniel Libeskind).

Tour Berlin's many excellent museums according to your interests. Visit world-renowned institutions on Museum Island such as the Pergamon Museum, Neues Museum and Altes Museum to see the Bust of Nefertiti, the Market Gate of Miletus and other masterpieces. See modern and contemporary art at top local galleries around the Mitte and Kreuzberg neighborhoods, or visit museums such as the Hamburger Bahnhof, Boros Collection or Martin-Gropius-Bau. Stop by the Kulturforum district to see important modernist buildings such as the Berlin Philharmonie by Hans Scharoun and the Neue Nationalgalerie by Mies van der Rohe. Also Secessionist-era buildings or structures in the more prosaic GDR style, such as the Fernsehturm TV tower in Alexanderplatz or a fragment of the Berlin Wall. You will also have time to visit Berlin's most interesting markets, food halls and shopping districts according to your interests.

One day, take a private excursion to nearby Potsdam, a UNESCO World Heritage-inscribed town famous for parks, palaces and lakes. Tour Sanssouci Palace and other palaces and pavilions among the vast pleasure gardens built for Prussian kings. Also browse shops in the Dutch Quarter and Old Town, and see the Einstein Tower, a historic astrophysical observatory designed by Erich Mendelsohn.

This tour can be extended to include additional design destinations near Berlin, such as Dessau and Dresden.