Museum of Decorative Arts, Museum in Berlin, Germany.
The Museum of Decorative Arts is a museum in Berlin displaying European applied arts and design objects from the Middle Ages to the present day across four floors. The collections include furniture, textiles, ceramics, and jewelry spanning different historical periods.
The museum was established in the late 1800s and moved to its present building at Matthäikirchplatz during the 1980s. This relocation made it a central part of Berlin's Kulturforum area.
The museum displays European craftsmanship traditions spanning centuries through its collections. Visitors can observe how design approaches shifted between periods and regions through the objects on view.
The building is centrally located in Berlin and easily accessible, with exhibitions spread across multiple levels that you can explore on foot. Plan to spend at least two to three hours to see the collections without rushing.
The museum runs a branch at Schloss Köpenick where Baroque and Rococo furniture is displayed in restored palace rooms featuring ornate plasterwork. This separate location offers a different experience since objects are shown within their original setting.
Location: Berlin
Address: Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin, Germany
Opening Hours: Wednesday-Friday 10:00-17:00; Saturday-Sunday 11:00-18:00
Phone: +4930266424242
Website: https://smb.museum/museen-einrichtungen/kunstgewerbemuseum/home
GPS coordinates: 52.50958,13.36700
Latest update: December 6, 2025 19:01
More than thirty years after its fall, the Berlin Wall still shapes the city. Between the districts of Mitte, Prenzlauer Berg, and Friedrichshain, fragments of concrete, watchtowers, and memorial plaques recall the division of a capital and its people. Some sections remain intact, others have been turned into memorials or works of art, like the East Side Gallery. Along the old border lines, museums and parks bring these historical traces back to life: Checkpoint Charlie, Bernauer Straße, the Topography of Terror, and Mauerpark. Each site holds a particular stillness, reflecting a time that Berlin does not erase but keeps present in memory. These places invite visitors to understand, to feel, and sometimes simply to remember. At Bernauer Straße, the central memorial preserves original Wall sections alongside a documentation center. The East Side Gallery displays murals by artists from around the world along more than a kilometer of Wall. The border crossing at Bornholmer Straße was the first to open on November 9, 1989. Mauerpark, once a stretch of death strip and border zone, now fills with people gathering to celebrate and relax. Smaller traces like the former watchtower at Schlesischer Busch or the Wall fragment on Liesenstraße sit quietly among residential buildings, reminding passersby that the border once ran straight through daily life.
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