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which nowadays houses a Kunst (Museum of Far Eastern
very good restaurant, was Art), now known together as
constructed in 1905. the Museum of Asian Art, to
the Nordamerica Ausstellung
(Exhibition of Native North
a Dahlem American Cultures).
 Dahlem Dorf. @ 101, 110, X11, Not far from the Museums-
X83. Museumszentrum: Tel 030-266 zentrum, the Museum
424242. Open Mon–Fri. Europäischer Kulturen
specializes in European folk
First mentioned in 1275, art and culture. Among the
by the 19th century Dahlem exhibits you can expect to
had grown from a small village see are earthenware items,
into an affluent, tranquil city costumes, jewelry, toys,
suburb. At the beginning of and tools.
the 20th century, a number Domäne Dahlem is a rare
of museums, designed by oasis of country life in the
Bruno Paul, were built. They Berlin suburbs. This Baroque
were extended considerably manor house (c.1680) boasts
in the 1960s, when the splendid period interiors,
Restaurant in the Forsthaus Paulsborn in Museumszentrum was created while the 19th-century farm
the Grunewald to rival East Berlin’s Museum buildings and courtyard host
Island (see pp504–6). regular artisans’ markets.
p Grunewald Highlights from this cluster There is also a petting zoo
 Grunewald. @ 115. Jagdschloss of museums include bronzes for children.
Grunewald: Tel 030-813 3597. from Benin in West Africa and The elegant Functionalist
Open Apr–Oct: 10am–6pm Tue–Sun; gold Inca jewelry from South building occupied by the
Mar, Nov, & Dec: weekends only. America at the Ethnologisches Brücke-Museum was built
Closed Jan & Feb. Museum (Museum of by Werner Düttmann in
Ethnography). The other 1966–7. Today, the museum
Just a short S-Bahn ride from collections range from the houses German Expressionist
central Berlin lie the vast forests Museum für Indische Kunst paintings by members of the
of the Grunewald, bordering (Museum of Indian Art) and artistic group known as Die
some of the city’s most elegant the Museum für Ostasiatische Brücke (The Bridge).
suburbs. Once the haunt of
politicians, wealthy industrialists,
and renowned artists, some of
the villas here now serve as the
headquarters of Berlin’s
academic institutes.
On the shore of the
picturesque Grunewaldsee
is the Jagdschloss Grunewald,
one of the oldest civic buildings
in Berlin. Built by Elector
Joachim II in 1542, it was
reconstructed in the Baroque
style around 1700. Inside the
small palace is Berlin’s only
surviving Renaissance hall,
which houses canvases by
Rubens and van Dyck among
others. Opposite the Jagdschloss,
the Jagd zeugmagazin (Hunting
Museum) holds displays of
historic hunting equipment.
Just 4 km (2 miles) away is
the Wald museum, the only
museum devoted to forest
life in the Berlin area.
To the southwest of the
Grunewaldsee is Forsthaus
Paulsborn. This rather
picturesque hunting lodge, The combined museum and working farm of Domäne Dahlem
For hotels and restaurants see pp546–8 and pp549–51

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