Berliner U-Bahn Museum, Railway museum at Olympiastadion station, Berlin, Germany
The Berliner U-Bahn Museum is a railway museum beneath Olympiastadion station that displays over 300 objects from Berlin's subway history across interconnected rooms. The exhibition sits within a former operational building below the station and shows vehicle parts, signaling equipment, tickets, and other items from different decades of the city's railway.
The building was originally an operational center that worked from 1931 until 1983 and controlled signals for many railway lines. After closure it was converted into a museum to preserve the machinery and history of this former control facility.
The museum displays work uniforms, badges, and photographs from the 1930s that show how subway staff looked and dressed back then. A dedicated room focuses on design elements from the 1950s, offering insights into how the city looked during that era.
The museum opens on the second Saturday of each month and visitors should plan enough time to walk through all the rooms comfortably. It sits close to the subway station and is easily reached on foot, so no long detours are needed.
A special experience is getting to operate a working control panel from 1931 with real levers and seeing genuine signal lights come to life. This original panel sits surrounded by around 1200 lamps that lit up the old signal system.
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