Accompanying Persons’ trips
All tours will depart from the Hyatt Hotel. Please meet in the lobby.
Monday
Trip A
Visit to the Lipstick Museum & KPM Royal Porcelain Factory
A former make-up artist of Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, charismatic René Koch, is well known for his
expert use of camouflage make-up and has worked in Paris and New York. He is offering an exclusive
visit to his very unique Lipstick Museum. The collector displays his private exhibition of lipsticks from
all over the world, ranging from modern examples, to those from baroque times. During his guided
tour, he relates interesting stories from his work with film and music stars. After the tour, there will be
an opportunity to ask beauty questions, accompanied by a glass of sparkling wine, or a coffee and
cake.
The group will continue on to the KPM porcelain factory. This historic building complex,
featuring the kiln hall, porcelain paste preparation facility and former turnery, is one of the oldest
surviving commercial sites in Berlin. During the tour, visitors will gain a fascinating insight into the art
of making porcelain and manufactory in Berlin. Visitors will learn about the development of the
factory’s trademark – the cobalt-blue sceptre, and will be shown various unique exhibits, whilst
exploring KPM’s past, from the earliest days to the present. After a chance to see the historic kiln hall,
visitors proceed to the centrepiece, the model and mould archive, and the show
workshop, where craft persons demonstrate their talents.
Lipstick Museum
KPM Royal Porcelain
Time: 09.00-14.15
Trip B
Jewish history in Berlin
Following the path of Jewish history in Berlin, this tour will lead you to the Memorial of the Murdered
Jews of Europe, located in the centre of Berlin. A place for remembrance and commemoration, the
Field of Stele has been designed by architect Peter Eisenman and consists of 2,711 steles. Visitors
may walk through the memorial. The next stop will be at the Synagogue. Once the largest Jewish
building in Germany it is now an important landmark and irreplaceable symbol of Jewish life in Berlin.
The tour continues with a visit to the Jewish Museum, designed by Daniel Liebeskind. With over 3000
square metres of exhibition space, the museum takes everyone on a journey through two millennia of
German-Jewish history.
Memorial
Synagogue
Jewish Museum
Time: 09.30-14.45
Trip C
Cold War tour
For those with a special interest in German history during the division of the city, this trip is a must.
The guide will point out the most impressive and important places and give everyone a good insight
into this period of German history.
There are not many sections of the Wall left, but, there are still some impressive parts to be visited.
The most famous piece is the so-called East Side Gallery, where artists from all over the world were
invited to paint pictures, inspired by Berlin history. There will be a visit to the famous Checkpoint
Charlie Museum, which should not be missed. During the building of the Wall in August 1961,
Checkpoint Charlie was the famous scene of a six day stand-off between American and Soviet tanks
– with their motors running and guns loaded.
East Side Gallery
Checkpoint Charlie
Time: 09.30-14.15
Trip D
Video bus tour – Berlin then and now
This trip has been cancelled.
Trip E
City boat cruise
It is a little known fact that Berlin is criss-crossed with waterways and man-made canals, there are
more bridges in the city than in Venice! During the cruise you will not only see the historical city
centre, Museum Island and the Berlin cathedral, but also the modern face of “New Berlin” such as the
government district, with the German parliament and new central train station “Hauptbahnhof”. Many
of the new building projects are situated by the river Spree. This cruise is a great way to discover the
city from a new viewpoint.
Boat cruise
Time: 09.45-14.15
Tuesday
Trip A
Shopping tour – City East & West
Berlin is full of interesting and elegant fashion stores. The first stop will be the Kurfürstendamm, home
to many designer shops, plus the huge department store KaDeWe. The group will be greeted with a
glass of champagne before setting out to explore Berlin’s fashions and designers, as well as some of
Germany’s regional delicacies spread across the exclusive food court of the KaDeWe.
The tour continues to the Eastern part of the city and its famous shopping boulevard Friedrichstraße,
with its brand new shopping arcades and department stores. A tour through the treasures of the
Gallery La Fayette will show everyone the latest trends and an insight into Berlin’s fashion scene.
KaDeWe
Gallery La Fayette
Time: 09.30-14.15
Trip B
Walking tour – Museum Island
This tour gives everyone an insight into one of the city’s cultural highlights – Museum Island.
Centrally located and surrounded by the river Spree, Museum Island – with its five museums – is a
designated UNESCO world heritage site. A walking tour is ideal to discover the wealth of culture on
exhibition. The trip includes a visit to the New Museum, with its most famous exhibit, the bust of
Nefertiti.
Museum Island
Time: 09.45-14.15
Trip C
Bunker tour & visit to Berlin Wall Memorial
Follow the path of the Cold War and start with a tour through Berlin’s underground bunker system. In
West Berlin civil defence shelters were reactivated or newly built in preparation for a possible nuclear
war – particularly after the building of the Berlin Wall. Some of these bunkers were built as ‘multipurpose structures’ and are currently used as underground stations, parking garages and storage
facilities. By explaining the practical preparations made to help people survive, this tour attempts to
make the realities and horrors of such conflict easy to comprehend.
The tour continues overground to the Berlin Wall Memorial, the central memorial site of German
division. Situated at the historic site on Bernauer Strasse, the memorial contains the last piece of
Berlin Wall with the preserved grounds behind it and is thus able to convey an impression of how the
border fortifications developed until the end of the 1980s. The events that took place here, together
with the preserved historical remnants and traces of border obstacles on display help to make the
history of Germany’s division comprehensible.
Berlin Wall Memorial
Time: 09.15-14.15
Trip D
Architecture tour
This trip has been cancelled.
Trip E
National Galleries – Old versus New
A tour for art lovers – combining the old and the new. It begins at the Old National Gallery, which
owns one of the largest collections of 19th century sculptures and paintings in Germany, together with
numerous high quality Impressionist paintings. Early acquisitions include masterpieces by Edouard
Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne and sculptures by Auguste
Rodin.
Moving on to the more recent periods of fine art, is a visit to the New National Gallery – a focal point
for lovers of contemporary art and architecture. The building, opened in 1968 and features the
impressive modern architecture of Mies van der Rohe. There are regular themed exhibitions,
alongside the permanent collection, ranging from contemporary to the art of the 1960s, featuring
works of Picasso, Dalí, Miró, Klee and Kandinsky amongst others.
Old National Gallery
New National Gallery
Time: 09.45-14.30