The Brandenburger Gate

The new Berlin presents it self to visitors as an open city again. Brandenburg Gate - once a symbol of the divided Germany - has again become the emblem of the German capital. Around it, the new centre of Berlin is rising up, a unique urban setting in which the old joins with the new, and the future of the city becomes visible.

The city's calendar of events lists official opening ceremonies for government buildings, embassies, television studios, stations, residential and business areas and new transport routes.

The signs of new beginnings, new buildings and modernisation can be seen through out the city. The Berlin cultural scene with its volume, variety, liveliness and attractiveness contributes significantly to the unmistakable profile of the city.

	The Bode Museum

The seventeen state museums of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Foundation) form the largest museum complex of the whole continent. Berlin is Germany's most important theatrical city. Berlin currently has three opera houses, over 150 theatres and stage companies, 800 choirs, about 170 museums and collections, about 300 communal and private galleries, over 250 public libraries, 265 cinemas and numerous other cultural institutions.

Berlin's raw flair is knowledge - the city has a science and research environment that is unique in Germany. At 4 universities, 10 specialist colleges, 3 art colleges and over 80 state-subsidised research establishments there are about 50,000 people working on products, solutions and innovations for the world of tomorrow.

With its two university clinics, the Charité and the Benjamin Franklin Clinic, Berlin is continuing a success full tradition that is closely associated with the names of Rudolf Virchow, Robert Koch and Ferdinand Sauerbruch.

More than 139,000 young people are studying at the universities and colleges. In relation to the Federal Republic as a whole, Berlin is thus making an above average contribution to the training of the young generation.