The crowded walls
Exhibits from floor to ceiling.
De-okin (talk) 19:37, 29 May 2009 (UTC) โ CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท Goldmund100 โ CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท Lear 21 โ CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท Spindux โ CC BY-SA 3.0
Honestly, no. The museum is built entirely on enthusiasm for one specific band, and anyone unfamiliar with its music will see rooms crowded with objects that mean nothing to them within twenty minutes. Punk enthusiasts, by contrast, will find a collection with no equivalent anywhere at a token price โ and the gap between those two experiences is sharper here than at any other museum in Berlin.
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The Ramones Museum in Berlin is the only museum in the world devoted to the American band the Ramones โ the contradiction everyone who visits begins with: a punk band from New York whose sole museum is in Germany rather than the United States. The reason is purely personal: the German collector Florian Hayler amassed band memorabilia obsessively from the 1990s โ over a thousand items including shirts, posters, concert tickets, instruments and members' personal effects โ then opened the collection to the public in 2005 in a small space. The museum has changed location more than once, which makes checking the current address necessary before setting out. The place is very small and nothing like an institutional museum: rooms crowded with exhibits across the walls and ceiling, a cafe bar inside, and an atmosphere closer to a club than a gallery. The ticket is cheap and grants lasting re-entry under its stated policy. This is a place for punk enthusiasts specifically, and will mean little to anyone else.
Exhibits from floor to ceiling.
The atmosphere of a club, not a gallery.
Neukolln, 12043 Berlin