We ended up visiting 5 locations - we looked up all the museums and their events, and identified which ones we wanted to visit. It made sense to avoid the free museums or the ones where we reckoned we could spend a long amount of time and go to the ones which might have one or two things of interest or that we probably wouldn't normally go to otherwise due to the cost. We also worked out in which order they should be visited and which ones we definitely had to do, and which ones could be dropped if we felt like we were running out of time.
NEUES MUSEUM
I don't know how to describe this museum other than its a bit like the British Museum on a much smaller scale and focuses on a bunch of treasures from the ancient world. Key for this museum was seeing the bust of Nefertiti, the Egyptian Queen. You weren't allowed to take photos of the bust - there were a heap of security guards around stopping people from doing so. But time your sneaky opportunity right and viola... A rather blurry photo of it. There was a lot of other Egyptian stuff there, and also a Golden Hat which probably was worn by a priest or druid.
PERGAMON MUSEUM
Next door is the Pergamon museum, which has large rooms of either replica facades of buildings, gates or structures from antiquity or the actual thing. There"s something a bit similar in the V&A Museum in London, but those rooms are rather packed and confused - in this museum, the items are larger but displayed further apart and given their own space. Like as in, an entire museum for about 20 items and even then during our visit one of the headline exhibits was off limits due to renovation. Interesting but personally I don't think it would be worth the usual entrance fee.
BERLINER DOM
The Lutheran Cathedral which sits on Museum Island with many of the other museums was visited, although the viewing platform up by the dome was not open. It was nice inside the Cathedral, though nothing distinctly different than any other Cathedral I felt.
MAUERMUSEUM
Mauer in German is Wall, so as you can guess this museum was about the Berlin Wall. This is the museum located in Checkpoint Charlie - not to be confused with "The Wall Museum" which is another museum down by the East Side Gallery. As far as Museums go, it was rather packed with information but is a bit "older" - its not very well laid out, and everything is a little bit shabby despite being informative. The only real problem is there is too much stuff - it really goes into depth about the different nuances going on between the US, France, UK and Soviets in the lead up to the creation of the Wall and everything subsequent but treats everything equally. You would expect landmark things such as the Berlin Airlift, the Wall going up or even the Wall coming down to be treated more prominently than they are. There is however a big section devoted to how people managed to escape East Germany - hidden in cars, a lady hidden in two suitcases on a train, a tunnel under the wall for example. Also, the Museum has large sections dedicated to other conflicts of similar or even not-so-similar nature around the world. We spent the most time here, but did not see and read everything as it all got a bit overwhelming with all the info. Definitely glad to have visited this museum, if it were renovated it would become a stellar museum attraction.
CURRYWURST MUSEUM
Feeling a bit worn after 4 museums and in particular the Mauermuseum, we decided to forget going to the Treptower Park telescope (which was some considerable distance away and it was late anyway) but since it was only around the corner, lets go visit the Currywurst Museum. In case you don't know, a Currywurst is a sausage (wurst) smothered in curry sauce which the Germans, but particularly Berliners love. Its kind of like a fast food or street food in Berlin - probably the equivalent of a meat pie? and yes, there surprisingly is a Museum about it. Its not a big museum, as funnily enough there's not really too much history or in depth information you can impart in a museum about currywurst - mainly just about how currywurst came to be (in the 1950's when an older lady was selling hot dogs to US Soldiers and wanted to differentiate her product) and a lot of facts and figures about how much currywurst is sold in Germany (a lot). It was rather amusing though, and a fun note to end the night on - but when you take into consideration that a ticket to this museum usually costs 11 euros, I have to say this museum is the least value for money of any of the ones we visited!
So in the end, we definitely got our money's worth and had a good night out being cultured in Berlin. I also feel like we used our ticket in the best way possible money wise too, and now we know what is in some of these museums that we see advertised around the place. In a nutshell, the only museum which I feel like I would have been perfectly happy to have spent the normal entry price to go into was the Mauermuseum - the others were either a bit pricey for what they are or extremely so (Currywurst Museum, I'm looking at you). These nights at the museum usually only happen once a year, so who knows if we'll be in Berlin when they have the next one but if they do have another while we're here I dare say we'd be keen to do it again.