All 14 Berlin landmark visitor guides in one hub — verified 2026 ticket prices, opening hours, closure days, and worth-it advice from the Reichstag to Museum Island.
This hub collects our 14 visitor guides to Berlin's landmarks — each one built around the three things you actually need before showing up: verified 2026 ticket prices, current opening hours, and an honest read on whether the paid version is worth it over the free one. Berlin punishes casual planning in ways most capitals don't. Its single most famous interior, the Reichstag dome, is free but requires an advance-booked time slot; its most famous museum, the Pergamon, has its main building closed until June 2027 with the star pieces moved to a separate Panorama venue; and the TV Tower runs dynamic pricing that can add several euros to the same ticket if you book late.
The flip side is that Berlin may be Europe's best free-sightseeing capital. Of the 14 landmarks below, more than half charge nothing at all — the Brandenburg Gate, the Berlin Wall Memorial, the East Side Gallery's 1,316 meters of painted Wall, the open-air Checkpoint Charlie site, the Holocaust Memorial and its Information Centre, the Topography of Terror (including its audio guide and weekend tours), Tempelhofer Feld's 386-hectare runway park, and the Reichstag dome itself. Even the Jewish Museum's permanent exhibition is free. The genuinely ticketed core comes down to Museum Island's €24 five-museum day pass, the €15 Berlin Cathedral, Charlottenburg Palace at €12, and the TV Tower from around €20.
Each card below links to a dedicated guide with current prices, day-by-day schedules, closure days (Monday is Berlin's near-universal museum rest day), transport directions, and the practical detail — booking windows, reduced-rate rules, what a "tickets" search actually means at a free site — that official pages tend to bury. At the bottom, six companion city guides help you turn the list into a trip.
Berlin's defining monument on Pariser Platz is free and open 24 hours, every day of the year — the "tickets" people search for are actually guided walking and bus tours that stop here, since there is no entry ticket to buy.
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The glass dome and roof terrace are free, but every visitor needs an advance-booked entry slot — the dome runs daily from around 8:00 AM with last admission at 9:45 PM, and walk-ups only work if same-day slots remain at the visitor service point.
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Online tickets to the 203-meter observation deck start from around €20, but pricing is dynamic and climbs closer to the date — the tower is open daily 9:00am to 11:00pm, with the Sphere Bar one floor below opening at 11:00am.
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The €24 Museumsinsel day pass covers all five museums (free under 18) and is the ticket most visitors actually need — open Tuesday to Sunday, closed Mondays, with the Pergamon's temporary Panorama exhibition included while the main building is renovated.
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The main building is closed for renovation until June 4, 2027 — in the meantime the collection's best-known pieces show at "Pergamonmuseum. Das Panorama" nearby, €12 adult (€6 concession), Tuesday to Sunday 10am–6pm.
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Adult admission to the Berliner Dom is €15 with an audio guide included — and since March 1, 2026 the same ticket also covers the newly reopened Hohenzollern Crypt, back on view after its restoration.
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The Documentation Center, the open-air exhibition along Bernauer Strasse, and the Chapel of Reconciliation are all free — the outdoor site is open daily 8am–10pm, with optional guided tours at around €5–7 per person.
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A free, always-open 1,316-meter stretch of the original Berlin Wall along Mühlenstraße, painted by 118 artists from 21 countries — no ticket, no timed entry, just an optional €5 guided walking tour.
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The open-air site — guardhouse replica, sandbags, and the "You Are Leaving The American Sector" sign — is a free public street corner that never closes; the paid part is the Wall Museum next door at €18.50 (reduced €14.50), open daily 10am–8pm.
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Both the outdoor Field of Stelae — accessible around the clock — and the underground Information Centre are free to enter; the Centre runs Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, with last admission 45 minutes before closing.
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One of the very few major Berlin museums where the tickets question has a one-word answer: free — the indoor exhibition, outdoor grounds, audio guide, and even weekend guided tours all cost €0, open daily 10am–8pm.
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The permanent exhibition in Daniel Libeskind's zigzag building is free — the paid add-ons are the €10 temporary exhibitions (€4 reduced) and €6 public guided tours. Open Tuesday to Sunday 10am–6pm, closed Mondays.
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A standard adult ticket to the Old Palace costs €12 (€8 reduced), while the combined charlottenburg+ ticket adds the New Wing, Mausoleum, and New Pavilion for €19 — closed every Monday, last admission 30 minutes before closing.
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Berlin's 386-hectare former airport is now a free public park with gates opening as early as 6:00 a.m. in summer and closing as late as 11:00 p.m. in June and July — the only paid option is a guided tour of the historic terminal building next door.
Visitor guide →The 14 guides above cover the landmarks one by one; these companion guides help you assemble them into an actual visit. Start with whether the Berlin Pass is worth it — the answer depends heavily on how many of the free sights above you'd visit anyway — then sequence your days with the 2-day Berlin itinerary. Budget travelers should read free things to do in Berlin, which extends the no-ticket list well beyond the landmarks in this hub. For a second visit — or a first one that dodges the queues — try Berlin's hidden gems, keep evenings covered with things to do in Berlin at night, and when the city itself is done, pick an excursion from our day trips from Berlin guide.
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