Charité Hospital Walking Tour: Exploring Berlin’s Medical History

4.9(48)2 hFree cancellationBy Beyond and Beneath Tours

About this activity

Discover more than 300 years of medical history on this walking tour of Berlin’s historic Charité campus. Founded as a plague house in 1710, the Charité became one of Europe’s most famous hospitals and a center of groundbreaking medical research. Explore the red-brick campus and hear about Robert Koch, Rudolf Virchow, and discoveries that transformed our understanding of diseases such as tuberculosis. Alongside these medical breakthroughs, examine the darker chapters of the Charité’s history, including its involvement in Nazi racial medicine and its later role in socialist East Germany.

- Explore 300+ years of Charité history

- Discover the historic red-brick campus

- Hear about Robert Koch, Rudolf Virchow, and medical breakthroughs

- Uncover the Charité’s history under the Nazis and in East Germany

- See how medicine, politics, and society intersected across three centuries

What's included

✓All Fees and Taxes
✓Guide

Not included

✕Visiting buildings in which clinical or university operations take place.

Meeting and pickup

At the Robert Koch monument in Robert-Koch-Platz. Look for our guide with the orange umbrella!

Good to know

Wheelchair accessible
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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