This is the best-kept museum secret for visitors to Berlin. “Alles Zucker / All About Sugar” is a fantastic permanent exhibition in the German Technical Museum, and it’s all bilingual in German and English. You can learn a huge deal here with these accessible and lively displays. They uncover the chemistry of sugar (that huge crab in the photo below is made of sugar…but not what you expect!) as well as its stormy history, in which Berlin plays a surprising star role. That’s right: Berlin was the source of the first-ever European sugar! Find out all about it in my podcast episode—you’ll learn smarty-pants things to impress even the most elite Berlin insiders.

Plus, check out the museum’s other enticing interactive exhibits in my video here!