Guided tours

Look, experience, discuss

Our guided tours for adults

Why did the Western powers decide on an Airlift to Berlin? How did the Allied intelligence services operate during the Cold War? What does the inside of the last guardhouse from Checkpoint Charlie look like?

We answer these questions and more on the history of the Western powers in Berlin from 1945 to 1994 in our guided overview and thematic tours, which focus on selected objects from our permanent exhibition or the current temporary exhibition. In conversation we elucidate the exhibition contents, discuss your questions, and make history come alive through direct encounters with objects.

We offer guided tours in German, English, French and Spanish. If you would like to book a group tour, please use the reservation form. Please submit your booking request at least two weeks before the desired date. Note that we had to limit the number of persons for guided tours of our exhibitions to 10 persons. A maximum of 15 people can take part in the 60-minute Little America walk in Berlin. During the tour we ask participants to keep a minimum distance of 1.5 meters and to wear a mouth and nose mask.

For the dates of free public tours in German, check the events calendar.

How Enemies Became Friends

Overview tour of the permanent exhibition
Get to know the most interesting exhibits from 50 years of Allied presence in Berlin.

The first part of the exhibition in the former Outpost Theater is dedicated to the period from 1945 to 1950. Numerous documents, photos and objects tell the checkered history of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany up to the early occupation period in Berlin.

The Cold War reached an initial highpoint with the Soviet blockade of Berlin and the Western powers’ Airlift in 1948/49. A tour of the British Hastings TG 503 transport plane on the grounds of the Allied Museum brings the unique history of the Airlift to life.

The second part of the permanent exhibition in the Nicholson Memorial Library documents not just everyday life in the American, British, and French military communities up to 1994, but also the controversial activities of their intelligence services in Cold War Berlin. A highlight of the guided tour is the American-British spy tunnel of 1955/56.

How enemies became friends
(overview tour of the permanent exhibition)
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: 50.00 EUR

Person: Max. 10 persons

Alternatively, we offer groups with 11-20 participants a short tour of 30 minutes through the permanent exhibition. In this case we show a film to subgroup A while subgroup B is guided. After 30 minutes the tour changes. Afterwards the visitors can visit the exhibition and the airlift aircraft on their own.

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LITTLE AMERICA. Life in the military community in Germany
A photo exhibition

Tour of the temporary exhibition
With some 200 photographs, the photo exhibition LITTLE AMERICA offers a varied impression of the everyday working and personal lives of members of the American military community in Germany. Alongside training, maneuvers and military technology, the pictures especially highlight the complex infrastructure of shopping centers, schools, sports facilities and GI clubs. Other photos address the family and housing situation of US soldiers or focus on encounters between Americans and Germans.

All of the photographs from the 1940s to the 1980s were published in American military newspapers. These inside views were thus by no means intended for an outside audience, but only for their own community.

The exhibition offers all of us the chance to gain a glimpse of the Little Americas, the rather inaccessible worlds of US soldiers and their families. An interactive station also allows visitors to follow the photographic production process of the time and (re)discover analog photography.

LITTLE AMERICA. Life in the military community in Germany
(tour of the temporary exhibition)
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: 50.00 EUR

Number of persons: Max. 10

 

 

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Interior Views of the Cold War

Thematic tour of the large-scale objects
Haven’t you always wanted to see the inside of a genuine Airlift plane, inspect the desks of military policemen at Checkpoint Charlie, or know what the French military railcar looked like?

Unfortunately we cannot offer this guided tour at present.

This thematic tour offers you the unique opportunity to do just that and view the large-scale objects on the Museum grounds from the inside. The Hastings TG 503 “Candy Bomber,” the French military railcar, and the last guardhouse from Checkpoint Charlie bear powerful witness to West Berlin’s island status and the threat to access routes to the western part of the city.

Interior views of the Cold War
(thematic tour of the large-scale objects)
Length: 60 minutes
Cost: 50.00 EUR

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Opening hours

 

Temporary closure of the Allied Museum
In light of recent government measures aimed at stopping the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Allied Museum will remain closed until further notice.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Topics

 

History in overview

The Allied Museum offers information on such important topics as the Cold War-era Airlift and Berlin crisis.
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Object in focus

 

Let us surprise you

Occasionally, the Museum will present particular objects from its collection. further information