18.04.2016

With nothing but honesty in mind, this was by far the most boring and frustrating tour of the most interesting museum that I have yet to experience in my young adult life. While I completely understand the world’s general distaste for Americans, our tour guide’s lack of interest in the group and our ability to comprehend what was being presented to us was nothing if not disheartening. My ability to retain the information he spewed at us took a heavy hit as he compared us to high school students, and was completely shut down upon being asked if we had ever heard of Walter Benjamin.

I left the majority of the museum unexplored due to my frustrations with our guide, and yet I was still able to walk away with at least a slightly better understanding of the history we have studied throughout the past two quarters in class. I wonder how much more I will be able to absorb and appreciate when I return to this museum during my Wanderzeit, hopefully unaccompanied by one of Berlin’s most disparaging and unfavorable museum docents.