Berlin is closed

The city's most visited museum has been completely closed to visitors for three years. Its Ishtar Gate isn't due to open again until 2037. It's not the only tourist hotspot turned building site.

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    Meanwhile, underground

    The short stuff. Weeks rather than decades, but it is still the difference between a twenty-minute hop and a rail-replacement bus.

      What made the list

      Somewhere you would actually want to go — a museum, a monument, a great stage, a bridge or a line through the middle — that is shut, half shut, wrapped in scaffolding, or has its closing date already in the diary.

      Where the dates come from

      Straight from whoever is holding the keys: the museum, the opera house, BVG, Deutsche Bahn, the Senate. Nothing here is a guess. Where nobody will name a date, we say so rather than make one up.

      Take every date with salt

      Berlin's reopening dates have a habit of wandering. The Bauhaus-Archiv has moved more times than we can count since 2018. The Märkisches Museum slid from 2025 to 2028. The Komische Oper simply downed tools. Read every year here as the best case.

      Spotted something wrong?

      Compiled 13 September 2026, and this city does not sit still. Every entry links to the people responsible — if a date here has already moved, theirs is the one to believe.