Mitte (Berlin) in the context of "Ethnological Museum of Berlin"

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⭐ Core Definition: Mitte (Berlin)

Mitte (German: [ˈmɪtə] ) is the first and most central borough of Berlin. The borough consists of six sub-entities: Mitte proper, Gesundbrunnen, Hansaviertel, Moabit, Tiergarten and Wedding.

It is one of the two boroughs (the other being Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg) which were formerly divided between East Berlin and West Berlin. Mitte encompasses Berlin's historic core and includes some of the most important tourist sites of Berlin like the Reichstag and Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Checkpoint Charlie, Museum Island, the TV tower, Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden, Potsdamer Platz, Alexanderplatz and Fotografiska Berlin. The latter seven of which were in former East Berlin.

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👉 Mitte (Berlin) in the context of Ethnological Museum of Berlin

The Ethnologisches Museum Berlin (English: Ethnological Museum of Berlin) is an ethnological museum, part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin (English: State Museums of the Prussian Heritage Foundation), the de facto national collection of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its exhibitions are located in the Humboldt Forum in Mitte, along with the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (English: Museum of Asian Arts).

The museum holds more than 500,000 objects and is one of the world's largest important collections of works of art and culture from outside Europe. Its highlights include objects from the Sepik River, Hawaii, the Kingdom of Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Tanzania, China, the Pacific Coast of North America, Mesoamerica, the Andes, as well as one of the first ethnomusicology collections of sound recordings (the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv).

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Mitte (Berlin) in the context of Berlin Palace

The Berlin Palace (German: Berliner Schloss), formerly known as the Royal Palace (German: Königliches Schloss), is a large building adjacent to Berlin Cathedral and the Museum Island in the Mitte area of Berlin. It was the main residence of the Electors of Brandenburg, Kings of Prussia and German Emperors from 1443 to 1918. Expanded by order of Frederick I of Prussia according to plans by Andreas Schlüter from 1689 to 1713, it was thereafter considered a major work of Prussian Baroque architecture. The royal palace became one of Berlin’s largest buildings and shaped the cityscape with its 60-meter-high (200 ft) dome erected in 1845.

Used for various government functions after the abolition of the Hohenzollern monarchy in the 1918 revolution, the palace was damaged during the Allied bombing in World War II, and was razed to the ground by the East German authorities in 1950. In the 1970s, the East German authorities erected a modernist parliamentary and cultural center on the site, known as the Palace of the Republic. After German reunification in 1990, and years of debate, particularly regarding the fraught historical legacy of both buildings, the Palace of the Republic was itself demolished in 2009.

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Boroughs and localities of Berlin → Berlin → Mitte (locality) → Gesundbrunnen (Berlin) → Hansaviertel → Moabit → Tiergarten, Berlin → Wedding (Berlin) → Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg → East Berlin → West Berlin → Reichstag building → Berlin Hauptbahnhof → Checkpoint Charlie → Museum Island → Fernsehturm Berlin → Brandenburg Gate → Unter den Linden → Potsdamer Platz → Alexanderplatz → Fotografiska →