Berlin - Finestre sull'Arte

Berlin finds a coin minted in Troy: it is the first Greek find in the city

A rare Greek coin from the 3rd century B.C. has been discovered in Berlin's Spandau district, marking the first Hellenistic-era find within the German capital's urban area. The small object, about 1.2 centimeters in diameter, was found by a 13-year-o...
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Berlin, Humboldt Forum says no more to most freebies: going from 0 to 14 euros

No more free admission: in Berlin, theHumboldt Forum, one of Germany's largest and most visited museums, will charge for much of what used to be visited without shelling out a euro. The new fee model, based on a single ticket, will officially come in...
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Rare treasure trove of medieval coins found at Berlin's Molkenmarkt

In Berlin's Mitte district, a small medieval treasure has emerged from underground during archaeological investigations at Molkenmarkt, the city's oldest square. The excavations, conducted by Landesdenkmalamt Berlin, uncovered five whole denarii and ...
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Berlin, closes Verborgene Museum, the museum of forgotten and unknown female artists

After more than thirty-five years, the Verborgene Museum in Berlin closed its doors on January 1, 2022. Since 1986 it had been located on Schlüterstrasse at number 70 in the Charlottenburg district, devoting itself to the research of forgotten w...
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Berlin prepares to welcome a major Yayoi Kusama retrospective

Berlin is preparing to host a major exhibition on Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama (Matsumoto, 1929): from March 19 to August 1, 2021, the Gropius Bau, the museum named after the great Bauhaus architect, will in fact host the exhibition Yayoi Kusama. A R...
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Do you want to spend a weekend in Berlin? Find out how ;-)

Never been to Berlin? Or have you already been there and would like to return? We are giving you the opportunity to fly there for a weekend, along with one other person, fully expensed by Warsteiner. And being local to them, they will certainly know ...
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Berlin: a journey to the era of the city divided between East and West, with The Bridge of Spies

On the weekend of April 1 to April 3, I had the opportunity to visit Berlin on the occasion of the release of Steven Spielberg's film The Bridge of Spies on DVD, Blu-Ray, and in digital format (it can be found on Google Play and iTunes). The trip was...
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An April trip to 1960s Berlin on the Spy Bridge.

April 1 and 2 will be a spy weekend for Finestre Sull'Arte: we were invited by none other than 20th Century Fox Italy to visit Berlin and the locations where Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg's latest film, "Bridge of Spies," starring Tom H...
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