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Berlin U5-Museumsinsel: Mozart, Schinkel, & Dudler

Above: Museumsinsel U-Bahn station entry-exit ‘A’. Photo, 17 May 2025 (P15).

The Berlin U-Bahn metro station Museumsinsel adjacent to the world renowned Museum Island is located on the U5 line which connects the city’s central station (Hauptbahnhof) with Alexanderplatz and the city’s eastern neighbourhoods. Construction for the station began in 2012 and lasted over 8 years. For the station interior at track level, architect Max Dudler was inspired by Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s 1815–1816 design of the stage for the Mozart opera “Die Sauberflöte” (The Magic Flute). For the appearance of the Queen of the Night, Schinkel imagined a large dome-like space like the overhead starry night sky. Over each of the two tracks in the U-Bahn station, Dudler designed a dark blue barrel-shaped vault embedded with thousands of white point-sources of light.

The fully-completed U5 extension from Hauptbahnhof to Alexanderplatz opened to the public on 4 December 2020, which at long last connected the Hauptbahnhof with Berlin’s U-Bahn city transport system. The Museumsinsel station on the U5 line opened on 9 July 2021. In addition to the city’s bus network, the station now allowed visitors to use the U-Bahn metro to reach the Museum Island complex, inscribed by UNESCO as World Heritage Site in 1999.

Artist and architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841) has his “fingerprints” on many of the city’s early- to middle 19th-century architecture, including in the immediate vicinity of the station the Neue Wache (New Guard House), Schlossbrücke (Castle Bridge), Friedrichswerder Church, Bauakademie (Building Academy), and the Altes Museum (Old Museum).

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Fotoeins Friday, Berlin 2025 (3): lalala Nollendorfplatz

I’m drifting around the U-Bahn junction station at Nollendorfplatz, before I head inside the Urban Nation street- and urban-art gallery and museum. So, why not: it’s about the “lalala” to (possibly) counter the grim gritty underbelly of the city. Or maybe not.

I made the image above on 18 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/60-sec, f/8, ISO1250, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vsH.

25T17 Among U-stations & murals

E16, B11.

I’ve long admired the street art by Hera+Akut, whose collaborative work between 2004 and 2020 was seen around the world; and now by Hera solo, whose work conveys clear messages about the universality of women’s strength and perseverance and their accomplishments. Their murals usually span the height of several storeys along the outside wall of a building (usually, an apartment building).

Today, I hopped into Berlin’s Wedding and Moabit to chase down a couple of murals, and in between, I found a representation of design variety for which Berlin’s U-Bahn stations have long been identified. Long-time residents and urban transit geeks have always known about this, but I feel the station interiors are worth showing.

as long as you are standing, give a hand to those who have fallen. // solange du aufrecht stehst, stütze die, die Dich brauchen. In Moabit: 2018, by Herakut, Wes21, & Onur.
Note how the tusks extend beyond the building’s edge, and how there’s a tiny car suspended in mid-air at the end of the elephant’s trunk.
U6 station Wedding. Around 1200 CE, the village of Weddinge was founded by nobleman Rudolphus de Weddinge.
U9 terminus station Osloer Straße, also intersects with the U8 line.
U8 station Pankstrasse.
U8 station Gesundbrunnen, which is a major suburban- & regional-rail junction, also known informally as Nordkreuz (North cross).
“Generation Equality” 2023 mural by Hera, for Street Art for Mankind, located in Wedding.
“Not caring is no option.” The protagonist is a health worker in green scrubs, her two daughters on her left shoulder.
“Generation Equality” by Hera (2023).

I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 24 May 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.