Schinkel's first Berlin work, a Neoclassical royal guardhouse on Unter den Linden, has been Germany's central memorial to the victims of war and dictatorship since 1993. In the bare room sits Käthe Kollwitz's 'Mother with her Dead Son'.
- Address
- Unter den Linden 4, 10117 Berlin
- Hours
- Mon-Sun 10:00-18:00 (Google hours via Wanderlog, 2026-09)
- Price
- Free
- Price level
- €
- Free entry
- Free for everyone
Details can change. Check hours and prices before you go.
Good to know
- Free; it takes five minutes but stay a while in the silence.
- Under the floor plaque lie an unknown soldier and an unknown concentration camp victim, interred in 1969.