Discounted or free attractions

My sister and I are going to Berlin in late February for 3 nights from Wednesday to Saturday. Are there any discounts available at any of the main tourist attractions or any attractions that are free? Thanks

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Discounts: students can get a discount in all museums; in addition, the museums on Museum Island and the Kulturforum (this includes the Egyptian Museum, the Gemaeldegalerie, the Bode Museum and many more) are open on Thursdays for free between 6 and 10 PM (18-22).

Free: the Reichstag is for free; and many state/official museums are for free - the Resistance Museum (which is bound to become very %26quot;In%26quot;, now with the new Tom Cruise movie); the Haus of the Wannsee Conference; the Bernauer Strasse Wall Documentation Centre; and many other such historical museums. In addition, many of the galleries in Mitte are practically free (exceptions: KM, C/O), so you can roam around, enter galleries that seem interesting for modern art.

Cheap: go to eat in less touristy areas. I particularly recommend hanging around Kreuzberg%26#39;s east end (%26quot;Kreuzberg 36%26quot;) - in Oranienstrasss; the north part of Neukoelln; Moabit,

Note about the so-called %26quot;Free%26quot; tours: someone is bound to mention the fact that there is a company (called New Berlin) offering %26quot;Free%26quot; tours in Berlin. These tours are not really free - they are tip-based and this is a big difference. The company counts the people before they leave, and charges the guide 5 EUR for each person. Now, if you take it as a %26quot;free%26quot; tour and not pay, you%26#39;re basically csrewing (for lack of a better word) the guide. If you pay more than 5 EUR per person - well, you could have taken the professional tours, they cost the same

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Just to add that, as guidebooks will tell you, the Pergamon Museum on Museum Island normally also has free entry on Thursday evenings but there is a special exhibition on currently so free entry has been suspended. Exhibition runs for several months yet. Last summer the same thing happened for the Babylon exhibition.

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