Museumsportal Berlin

Every day, hundreds of people walk past a green door in the Gesundbrunnen Underground railway station unaware that within lies a subterranean labyrinth full of authentic history waiting to be experienced. How uncomfortable it must have been during WWII to be crammed inside these small chambers - the depleted air supply, the incessant clanging of ventilation machines, the thundering of bomber aircrafts overhead. This atmosphere of fear and anguish can still be sensed today. Tour 1 will lead visitors through civilian shelters and bunker complexes as they learn about life during the bombing campaigns in Berlin. Over the course of the tour, visitors will view a museum exhibition of WWII remnants that the Berlin Underworlds´ Association has retrieved during their work below ground. The Underworlds´ Museum displays objects from many layers of the long and fascinating history of subterranean Berlin. Visitors will see artifacts from Berlin´s late-19th century pneumatic dispatch system, as well as documentation of the hundreds of kilometres of Berlin´s sewer systems and of the city´s many amazing cathedral-like brewery cellars.