Subject related visits
BMW Motorbikes
The role and viability of manufacturing in national economies can be explored through visiting this factory. It is also an ideal opportunity to see the systems and processes students have studied in the classroom in action, helping them to understand their importance in the real world.
Axel Springer Publishing
Germany's largest publishing house shows students how the organisation, technology and resources of businesses, combined with creative talent, work to fire imaginations around the country, while turning a profit.
Berliner Pilsner
See how this German beer is produced and how it adapts to and shapes the tastes of its target market through using modern technological processes to make and maintain the quality of its product.
Further highlights
- Art & Art History
Bauhaus Archiv
For students interested in how art can be functional too, a visit to the Bauhaus Archiv shows how 20th century artists and designers created art in a variety of media to be functional and produced on a mass scale.
Charlottenburg Palace
In addition to the largest collection of 18th century art outside France, the Charlottenburg is also home to many works by Picasso among others, allowing students to see a wide range of artistic works in magnificent surroundings.
Berlinische Galerie
A collection of art from 1870s Berlin to the present, ranging from photographs to paintings to architecture, the Berlinische Galerie shows the wide selection of art that has been inspired by Berlin.
Jewish Museum
German Jewish culture is overshadowed by the Holocaust. While this event and the emotions and themes it evokes are enormous, students can also see how Jews in Germany have responded to the range of experiences of their history, through their art.
- Modern Foreign Languages
German language lessons
In partnership with local language centres, staffed by native speakers, students can be taught German before going onto the streets to practice for themselves.
Theatre visit
German literature is blessed with many famous writers, whose influence on the German way of life has been hugely significant. Students can not only develop their comprehension but gain an important insight into German culture.
Shopping Trip
Students can best practice their German language skills out on the streets, chatting to shopkeepers and staff, asking questions and testing themselves in everyday situations.
- History & Battlefields
Potsdam
The residence of the Prussian, and later German, monarchy until 1918. Potsdam is an ideal place to find out about the importance of Prussia in the unification of Germany in the 19th century, as well as playing an important role in later German history.
Topography of Terror
The history of Nazism contains important lessons not only for students' exams but also for their broader development. By documenting the destructive effects of Nazi state terror, students gain a humanising insight into the history of totalitarianism in Germany, and its implications for the world today.
Jewish Museum
A remarkable building documenting the history of the Jewish community in Germany throughout its history, not only displaying but asking visitors to think about the trauma and effects of the Holocaust.
Sachsenhausen
The concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, uniquely, was placed on the edge of Berlin. Students can: see the horrifying conditions in which inmates were forced to live, observe the artefacts that victims left behind and consider how Germans have tried to come to terms with their recent history.
Checkpoint Charlie
After the trauma of Nazism came the trauma of the division of Germany, represented graphically by the Berlin Wall. This is an ideal place to see the origins and development of the Cold War, its historical impact on Europe and reflect on the future of European unification.