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Ascension Day in Berlin: Timeride, Asisi Panorama The Wall and Computerspielemuseum

Objavljeno: 27.05.2022

Already at breakfast, we noticed that many tourists had come to Berlin over the long Ascension Day weekend. The waiting times for coffee and food kept getting longer... We also shared our table with a nice couple because there weren't enough seats for everyone.


Alexanderplatz
Alexanderplatz


On this day, we had planned to visit three museums for which we had already obtained tickets with time slots the day before. After having to leave Timeride with just one ticket for the next day, we thought it was wiser, even though it meant we wouldn't be as spontaneous anymore.


Timeride
Timeride


So first we went to 'Timeride', a virtual time travel with virtual reality glasses, where you can first hear reports from eyewitnesses and then take a virtual bus tour through divided Berlin before the reunification. The glasses and graphics were a bit unusual, but overall we enjoyed the little time travel.


Asisi Panorama THE WALL
Asisi Panorama THE WALL


Just a few steps further at Checkpoint Charlie, we then saw the huge panorama THE WALL by Berlin artist Yadegar Asisi.


Asisi Panorama THE WALL
Asisi Panorama THE WALL


On a 1:1 scale, he captured a scene from the 1980s on a 900 square meter canvas, accompanied by audio documents from that time.


Asisi Panorama THE WALL
Asisi Panorama THE WALL


Since we still had some time until the next admission time slot, we drove to the Brandenburg Gate and visited the exhibition on the European Parliament there. In addition to small virtual games about Europe (where you had to place all capital cities in the correct countries, for example), there was a lot of information and 360° films.


Erlebnis Europa
Erlebnis Europa


We continued our journey to Karl-Marx-Allee, where we took a break in a rose garden that was left over from the 2017 International Garden Exhibition.


Rosengarten in der Karl-Marx-Allee
Rosengarten in der Karl-Marx-Allee


In the café next door, we waited for our admission time slot at the Computerspiele Museum. Besides informational texts and films, there were also many exhibits of old computers and game consoles.


Computerspiele Museum
Computerspiele Museum


However, the most popular were the stations where you could try out video and computer games. The museum was well-attended and the games were occupied most of the time, giving us the chance to read the texts in peace...


Computerspiele Museum
Computerspiele Museum


In the evening, we had tickets for the show 'Stars in Concert' at the Estrel Show Theater.


Estrel
Estrel


So we drove to Sonnenallee and first had a meal in a pizzeria with the beautiful name 'Das Pi'.


Pizzeria Das Pi
Pizzeria Das Pi


Then we saw Robbie Williams, Madonna, Elvis, the Blues Brothers, Louis Armstrong, and Cher on stage.


Stars in Concert
Stars in Concert


The next morning, we had some time before our return journey, so we went to the Humboldt Forum again to see the exhibition 'After Nature'.


Humboldt Forum
Humboldt Forum


There, the university's excellence clusters were presented and there was a variety of exhibits, although the connection between them was not immediately apparent to us...


Humboldt Forum
Humboldt Forum


After so much culture, we went shopping at the Alexa shopping center on Alexanderplatz before heading home.

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