27. April 2025
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Berlin Charite Medical History Museum

Florian Buechtingby Florian Buechting

Charite Medical History Museum

10 EUR
Charite Medical History Museum
4.4

Rating

 4.4/5

Flyctory.com Pros

  • Nice range of medical history covered
  • Great exhibition of human body parts with different diseases
  • Very practical location

The Charité is one of the most famous and best hospitals in Germany. It is driven by the two key Berlin universities, the Humboldt University and the Freie Universität. In four locations, it can host over 3,000 patients. On their main grounds, the hospital is also driving the Berlin Charite Medical History Museum – or Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, how it is named in German. I take you on a visit.

 

 

Charite Medical History Museum – Location & Admission

The Charite grounds and the museum is located just a short walk away from Berlin Main Station. Other key Berlin attractions like the governmental district are in short walking distance as well. The Futurium, which I presented you in a review battle with Museum of the Future in Dubai, is also just a few minutes walk.

The museum is opening from Tuesday to Sunday. The normal times are 10:00 to 17:00. On Wednesdays and Saturdays, the Charite Medical History Museum is closing doors later, at 19:00. Adult admission is 10 EUR. Some parts of the museum display real human body parts. Photography is forbidden in these sections, so that I also cannot feature them in my review.

 

Charite Medical History Museum – The Visit

The exhibition space of the museum spans over five (not that large) floors, including the ground floor. One floor is used for temporary exhibition. All documentation is given in German and English, so that you can make it very easily as a foreign visitor as well. The first floor you visit is the Virchow Kabinett (“Virchow Cabinet”), named after pathologist Rudolf Virchow, who opened the place as the “Pathological Museum”. However, the exhibition also touches cultural aspects of medical history. Of course, there is also historic  medical equipment like an iron lung.

As you see in the pictures, the museum features a wide range of medical items. Behind the yellow gate you see on the pictures below, there is the exhibition of human body parts, not allowing to take pictures for obvious reasons. In the parts I visited thereafter, the museum is also featuring other aspects of medical history, like the trials against doctors who abused people during the German Nazi times.

 

Charite Medical History Museum – Services

During your visit, you pass the historic auditorium of the premises. This is a really impressing part of the visit. At the reception, there is also a small souvenir store at the reception desk. The staff in the museum was very friendly and helpful.

 

Charite Medical History Museum – My View

The Charite Medical History Museum is really a nice place. It features a wide range of aspects and the human body exhibitions is awesome and very illustrative – bad luck I cannot share it with you. On top of that, the location is really nice as well, so that you can easily integrate it to your Berlin travel schedule. Thus, I would definitely recommend a visit.

 

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