• Tourist info in the south wing, where you can pick up city information and book tickets for events
• Nearby sights on foot: the Reichstag, the Unter den Linden boulevard and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe are a short walk away
• The Quadriga faces east, toward the old city center, a handy way for kids to tell which side of the gate they are on

The city's only surviving historic gate, built 1788 to 1791 and modeled on the entrance to the Acropolis in Athens. Twelve Doric columns hold up the Quadriga, a chariot statue Napoleon took to Paris in 1806 and Berlin got back in 1814.

Kids can walk through the columns, spot the four horses on top, and hear how the gate stood in a closed zone of the Berlin Wall until 1989.