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Neues Museum vs Reichstag Building
Neues Museum and Reichstag Building are both highly recommended by expert writers. Overall, Reichstag Building scores marginally better than Neues Museum. Reichstag Building comes in at #3 in Berlin with approval from 8 publications like Travel + Leisure, Frommer's and Condé Nast Traveler.
Neues Museum
Travel + Leisure
Time Out
Let's Go
Michelin Guide
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Bodestrasse 1-3, 10178 Berlin
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Travel + Leisure
"After 12 years of painstaking work, the Neoclassical structure reopens with one of the world’s top collections of Egyptian art and a singular beauty, the bust of Nefertiti."
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Time Out
"Finally reopened in 2009 after extensive remodelling by the British architect David Chipperfield, this stunning building now houses the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection."
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Let's Go
"Oddly enough, the Neues Museum (literally “New Museum”) houses the old. Tourists don’t just visit this place because it’s on Museum Island—its collection earned it a spot among the stars."
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To avoid the lines, reserve a ticket online.
Michelin Guide
3 Stars
"The museum is now home to the Museum of Pre- and Protohistory and the Egyptian Museum. In ruins prior to Reunification, the museum's richly decorated interior has been restored."
Afar Magazine
"both the building and its inspiring contents are well worth the visit. "
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Reichstag Building
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Travel + Leisure
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Condé Nast Traveler
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Platz der Republik, Tiergarten, 11011 Berlin
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Fodor's
"British architect Sir Norman Foster lightened up the gray monolith with a glass dome, which quickly became one of the city's main attractions."
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Travel + Leisure
"The Reichstag, with its transparent Norman Foster dome and top-notch collection of contemporary art... is a blessing upon the urban grid."
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Frommer's
"Today, the Reichstag is back and is once again the home of the country's parliament in the wake of the collapse of the Berlin Wall and subsequent reunification in 1990."
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Condé Nast Traveler
"Intended to symbolize a new, democratic Germany, its stroke of genius is to let light into a building famous for its negative associations."
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Admission is free but register in advance to avoid long wait times.
Let's Go
"The Reichstag serves as the German parliament building."
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Visitors can trek around the roof terrace while avoiding the solar panels that make the Reichstag the world’s only zero-emission congress.
