Berlin, Day 7

The symphony hall, right next to the art museum. Berlin is filled with cool modern architecture.

1. Film museum this morning. Interesting exhibits on some important early German movies, that my husband learned about in film class last year (one of his required humanities). Metropolis, one of the very early science fiction movies, and Caligari (not full title), which appears to be very Tim Burton-esque, very surreal, made post-WW I, I believe, prior to sound. Learning about both was very cool
2. Gemaldegalerie, the classical art museum, after that. I really like modern (20th century) art, not always a huge fan of older, but it was really cool to be in this museum two days before Christmas, because there we many hundreds of years (help me out here, art history majors) when it seems like practically everything painted was Mary and baby Jesus. I must of seen a hundred of these paintings today, and it was really cool to see one after the other, because they all look so different. Of course there are no photographs so we have no idea what these people actually looked like, I just thought it was a so interesting to see dozens of artist's different interpretations
3. Went back to the Christmas market and each got a heart-shaped gingerbread cookie...so now our hotel room is decorated for Christmas :)
4. There is the biggest billboard I've ever seen next to our hotel. What's it got on it? An iPad
5. And, the Berlin wall used to stand right outside our hotel, it's marked by a double row of cobblestones. Pieces of the wall are on display, heavily and colorfully graffitied. Hard to imagine a wall going up in the middle of your city