One more try taking a detour ...

A place to avoid :

Madame Tussaud's Berlin.

Expensive entrance, 20.95 Euro. Hordes of school children on an "educational" school trip. Overly friendly (not normal for Germany) and somewhat pushy staff trying to sell you tickets for their other exhibitions and ushering you to a Trabant car for a picture (sold at 10 Euro).

Yes, you have walked into a Tourist Trap.

The exhibition is more "sensation" than "education" and meant to be "interactive", which means the figures are placed so that you can pose and take your picture with them. Not much scenery. There is one exception : Adolf Hitler. You are not even allowed to take a picture of him and to this purpose they have placed him in a "bunker", only visible through 2 small windows. It's the usual clash between reality and German denial policy.

There are about 95 wax figures in politics, scientific, sports and artist departments, sometimes they seem somewhat lost between the crowd. My freebie is usually crowded too, unless you use the alternative version which is quite the opposite : empty, eerie ...

I bought the guide (5 Euro) which amazingly is rather educational showing among other things the hard work that goes into constructing these figures. It's really a shame that they end up in a sideshow like this.

It's obvious I didn't find anything useful for a freebie here.

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