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German Historical Museum

The German Historical Museum, known by the acronym DHM, is a museum in Berlin, Germany devoted to German history. It describes itself as a place of "enlightenment and understanding of the shared history of Germans and Europeans".
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  • Opening hours:
    10:00 AM—6:00 PM
    December 24th: closed
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum of German history in Berlin
  • Also known as: “Deutsches Historisches Museum” and “Zeughaus”
  • Address: Unter den Linden 2, Mitte, Berlin, 10117
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include New Guard House and Zeughaus.

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The Neue Wache is a listed building on boulevard in the of , . Erected from 1816 to 1818 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a guardhouse for the and a to the Liberation Wars, it is considered a major work of Prussian Neoclassical architecture. is situated 100 metres west of German Historical Museum.

Museum
Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
The is a listed building and the oldest structure on boulevard in the of . Erected from 1695 to 1706 according to plans by Johann Arnold Nering, Martin Grünberg, Andreas Schlüter and Jean de Bodt in Baroque style, it was later converted into a Prussian Hall of Fame.

Museum
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The is a listed building on the in the of , Germany. It was built from 1910 to 1930 by order of Emperor Wilhelm II and according to plans by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann in Stripped Classicism style. is situated 350 metres north of German Historical Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Friedrichswerder and Mitte.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood, situated in the locality of , part of the . It is identical to the town of , founded in 1662, which was an independent town until 1710.

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, literally meaning "the middle" and being a contraction of Stadtmitte, contains the historical heart of Berlin and represents in many ways the real centre of the city.

Quarter
is a historic zone or neighbourhood of central , , which forms part of the locality of within the borough also called .

German Historical Museum

Latitude
52.51775° or 52° 31′ 4″ north
Longitude
13.39702° or 13° 23′ 49″ east
Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)
Inception
October 28th, 1987
Operator
Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum
Open location code
9F4MG99W+3R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3203167561
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6695215
Wiki­data ID
Q688335
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“German Historical Museum” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Գերմանիայի պատմության թանգարան”
  • Bavarian: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Belarusian: “Нямецкі гістарычны музей”
  • Belarusian: “Нямецкі гістарычны музэй”
  • Catalan: “Museu Alemany d’Història”
  • Chinese: “德国历史博物馆”
  • Chinese: “德國歷史博物館”
  • Czech: “Německé historické muzeum”
  • Danish: “Det tyske historiske museum”
  • Danish: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Dutch: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Esperanto: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Finnish: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • French: “Deutsche Historische Museum”
  • French: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • French: “LeMO”
  • French: “Musee historique allemand”
  • French: “musée historique allemand”
  • French: “Musée historique allemand”
  • German: “Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin”
  • German: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • German: “DHM”
  • German: “Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון הגרמני להיסטוריה”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון להיסטוריה גרמנית”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון להיסטוריה של גרמניה”
  • Hebrew: “צויגהאוס”
  • Indonesian: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Italian: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Italian: “Museo storico tedesco”
  • Japanese: “ドイツ歴史博物館”
  • Korean: “독일 역사박물관”
  • Macedonian: “Германски историски музеј”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “DHM”
  • Norwegian: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Persian: “موزه تاریخ آلمان”
  • Polish: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Polish: “Niemieckie Muzeum Historyczne”
  • Portuguese: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Histórico Alemão”
  • Russian: “Германский исторический музей”
  • Russian: “Немецкий исторический музей”
  • Slovenian: “Nemški zgodovinski muzej”
  • Spanish: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Spanish: “Museo Historico Aleman”
  • Spanish: “Museo Histórico Alemán”
  • Swedish: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Tagalog: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Turkish: “Alman Tarih Müzesi”
  • Turkish: “Deutsches Historisches Museum”
  • Ukrainian: “Німецький історичний музей”

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