The Ephraim-Palace is one of Berlin's prettiest houses. The building, with its rococo facade and the delicate balcony banister and Tuscan pillars was built in 1766, for Frederick the Great's court jeweller and coin entrepreneur Nathan Veitel Heinrich Ephraim. On the plot of land Mühlendamm/corner Poststraße on today's Nikolai-Square, was once Berlin's oldest pharmacy.

image author: Gisela Pape

The palace was dismantled in 1936 for an extension of the Mühlendamm, which had become necessary and most probably it was of Jewish origin.

It was taken apart to nearly 2500 individual parts and stored in West-Berlin. The house was so able to survive the war 'undamaged' in its origin as one of the few historical buildings in Berlin.
In the course of the construction of the Nikolai-Square in 1985-1987, its reconstruction began near its original location, after a most spectacular hand over operation of the parts between the West-Berlin Senate and the East-Berlin Magistrate. Here one reverted back to the original facade parts. A room on the first floor gained a copy the so-called Schlüter-ceiling from the Wartenbergschen Palace, which was demolished in 1889.

The Museum Ephraim-Palace

Today, the Ephraim-Palace serves for changing exhibitions on three levels about Berlin art and cultural history. There is also the graphical collection of the Town Museum.

To the Homepage of the Town Museum Berlin

Address: Ephraim-Palais

Poststraße 16 10178 Berlin

Opening Times:

Mondays closed
Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm
new 2005: Wedenesday 12nn - 8pm

+49(30) - 24 00 2 - 121

Transport Links:

S5, S7, S75, S9 Alexanderplatz or Hackescher Markt
U2, U8 Alexanderplatz
M4, M5, M6 Marienkirche
TXL, 100, 148, 200