Ramones Museum

One of my favorite things we did in Berlin was visit the Ramones Museum for a nostalgic throw back to our teens. If you have a love & respect for rock & roll it is a must. This punk band had a huge influence on rock and roll. The museum's website states that the museum is the first and the only museum dedicated to the band. The museum also acts as a cafe and a tiny venue in which local bands come and play. The gentlemen working reminded me of Ryan Ross circa Panic at the Disco during the Pretty Odd album. Click HERE to see a photograph if you don't know who I am talking about. Ryan Ross is the second guy from the left. 

 The guy at the counter let us choose a drink and handed us a Ramones pin. He said hold onto it & bring it back the next time we are in Berlin because we could use the pin for life to get us into the museum for free from now on. We pushed passed small swinging doors drinking our fritz and checking out the memorabilia that was arranged before us on the rustic walls.

The Museum was small but had a ton of memorabilia ranging from tickets, hand written lyrics, pieces of clothing, & some of the first promotional show posters. The museum goes in chronological order too which keeps it all organized nicely for OCD people like me, haha. The cafe area also was intimately smaller with cute seating & tons of photographs of famous people hanging on the walls signed over the years by those who have visited the cafe/museum. 

If you find yourself in Berlin & want a feeling for the younger vibe the city has going on I cannot suggest enough popping in and spending about an hour in the Ramones cafe/ museum. Better yet, buy a cheap ticket & catch the band for that night! The guy at the front counter was ridiculously sweet & invited us to come back to watch a band play later that night. Unfortunately we had to leave early the next morning so we couldn't.

You can enjoy a show though since you've had a heads up! Why not relive your former rock and roll years? We all were angsty teens once, right? Better yet post a picture of you when you were in that awkward angsty teen phase in the comment section of this post on FB, because if you don't did it really ever happen?