DDR Museum and Reichstag Building

We had an appointment scheduled at the Reichstag Building for 20:15 so I figured we should do something before our appointment. We stopped here, which is in the square of the State Opera, Berlin, where on May 10, 1933 upwards of 25,000 volumes of "un-German" books by the Nazi dominated student groups.  This is a memorial of the empty bookshelves.  

Berliner Dom before the DDR Museum. This is also on my festival of lights post. Looks cool in the day time too.

We were headed to the DDR Museum.  Deutsche Demokratische Republik (former East Germany) The museum is the blue light behind us. 

The Reichstag  is a historic, edifice in Berlin, constructed to house the Imperial Diet of the German Empire. It opened in 1894 and was damaged by fire in 1933. It had been restored in the 60's but full renovation was done in the 90's and now houses the Parliament. When you walk into the dome you can look down on all the seats. When we were there, the dome was closed, so we just walked around the terrace. We hope to go back when someone comes to visit!

This is a free place to visit. You have to register and get an appointment and bring your passport, go through security etc.  I failed to tell this to my family, so Lexa had a knife with her, that I am surd they would have held until we came back down, but she and her Dad decided she should find a spot to hide it outside and we would get it when we came back out. Instead of finding a place a little away from the entry security building, she threw it in the bushes right in front.  When we came out there were security people outside by the bushes, so we had to delay and took photos of ourselves in front of the building, until they went inside, then Lexa tried to act like she was tying her shoe to retrieve her knife in the bushes, it was comical.

Looking into the Tiergarten at night. 

Brandenburg Gate with not many people!