image author: Gisela Pape

The Pleasure Garden, immediately between Palace Bridge Unter den Linden in Berlin-Centre and Berlin Cathedral, is the entrance to the Museum Island. The newly created park with fountain and well-kept lawns, created after an historical example by the Prussian garden architect Peter Joseph Lenné invites Berliner and visitors to linger for a while.

The granite bowl in front of the Old Museum is the Pleasure Garden's eye-catcher. It weighs 70 tonnes and was created in 1831, from a single erratic block after plans by Schinkel.

Today’s Lustgarten was planted in 1573, as kitchen and herb garden for the city's palace and converted in 1643, into a flower garden. Prussia's first potatoes were planted here in 1649. It became a real pleasure garden with statues, fountain and exotic plants under the Great Elector. Later, it became the parade ground for the soldiers of King Frederick William I.

image author: Gisela Pape

Today’s Pleasure Garden was planted in 1573, as kitchen and herb garden for the city's palace and converted in 1643, into a flower garden. Prussia's first potatoes were planted here in 1649. It became a real pleasure garden with statues, fountain and exotic plants under the Great Elector. Later, it became the parade ground for the soldiers of King Frederick William I.

The Pleasure Garden is also the backdrop for exhibitions in public space, like the sculptures by the Colombian artist Fernando Botero in 2007. Voluptuous oversized bronze figures – the show 'Voluptuous Sensuality' – heads, riders, horses, naked, reclining goddesses and male figures - to be touched by everybody.

Introduced in the 19th-century to the Prussian garden architect Peter Joseph Lenné as courtyard for Schinkel's Old Museum.