The David Hasselhoff Museum in Berlin, Germany

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H’off to Berlin soon? If you are bored of the Brandenburg Gate or find Museum Island too mundane, we may have something a little more offbeat and a fun, free thing to do in Berlin.

We were ‘Looking for Freedom’… to show our appreciation for all things David Hasselhoff. So when we heard about the world’s first (and probably only) David Hasselhoff Museum in Berlin, we knew we had to ‘Jump in My Car’ (well, the Berlin Metro) and visit.

Located in the Circus Hostel in Mitte Berlin, this is the world’s first (and probably only) David Hasselhoff Museum, dedicated to all things ‘the Hoff’.

‘Hoff The Record’…kitsch as and a little cramped, we really enjoyed visiting the David Hasselhoff Museum in Berlin.

So here is our guide to visiting the David Hasselhoff Museum in Berlin.

The David Hasselhoff Museum in Berlin

But why would Germans be interested in David Hasselhoff, this hairy chested 80s TV star? Answer – Hasselhoff is considered an absolute legend in Berlin and Germany, and he was probably more famous in Germany in the 1980s than he was in the USA. So it kinda makes sense there is tribute to the great man himself, in the form of the David Hasselhoff Museum.

On New Year’s Eve 1989, just a few weeks after the iconic night of November 9th (the fall of the Berlin Wall), David Hasselhoff belted out his hit song ‘Looking for Freedom’ at Brandenburg Gate near the remains of the wall.

David Hasselhoff was wearing his famous leather jacket and piano key tie, whilst suspended from a crane above a crowd of one million adoring Germans.

The song had been number one in the German charts for several weeks during the summer of 1989 before the wall fell, and many Germans credit David Hasselhoff for contributing towards east and west Germany’s reunification!

Inside the David Hasselhoff Museum in Berlin

Fast forward many years later to 2008 when a small version of the unofficial David Hasselhoff museum was created by bartender and superfan Sebastian Neeb at the Circus hostel.

Renovations of the Berlin David Hasselhoff Museum in 2015 allowed for a larger and more permanent version of the museum to be created and it officially opened on March 6 2015 to the public. This newer David Hasselhoff Museum displays a half shrine, half collection of David Hasselhoff memorabilia with items from Baywatch to the Berlin Wall.

The David Hasselhoff museum in Berlin is free to enter and items on display in glass cabinets include a replica of the piano key scarf that he wore on New Year’s Eve 1989, a piece of the Berlin wall, Baywatch outfits, Knight Rider toys and a signed photo.

The main attraction is a massive illustrated mural of David handsomely reclining with his shirt unbuttoned that has also been signed by the very man himself, when he visited the ‘museum’ in June 2017 (heeven did a Facebook live video!)

So is it worth a visit to the David Hasselhoff Museum in Berlin if you aren’t a Hasselhoff fan? Well, yes and no. As fans of all things kitsch and 1980s (think The A-Team, Tiffany, the Rubik’s Cube etc), we visited the David Hasselhoff Museum specifically as we just had to see this place for ourselves – seeing is believing!

Although fun, it is fair to say that the David Hasselhoff ‘museum’ description is a little misleading – this in a single, dark, tiny basement corridor room next to the hostel’s toilets – even if you peruse every single item, you’ll be done in 5 minutes.

This might be the reason why there is no pomp and circumstance in terms of directions or signs at the hostel to the David Hasselhoff Museum (perhaps it was too large a title to fit on the signs?!).

We just wandered into the Circus Hostel off the streets of Berlin and had to find our own way. Maybe the David Hasselhoff Museum is a joke that just got a little out of hand and they are now embarrassed about it – really, we feel they need to embrace it more and shout about it’s presence.

Hell, even introduce some related brews in the microbrewery like Hoff-meister, I’ve Been Looking For Beer-dom* etc.

The David Hasselhoff ‘museum’ in Berlin isn’t for everyone but (‘h-off the record), we actually quite enjoyed it.

*sorry / not sorry

The David Hasselhoff Museum in Berlin is open 24 hours a day so you can even worship at the David Hasselhoff during the Knight (rider).

The David Hasselhoff Museum, Circus Hostel, Weinbergsweg 1A, 10119 Berlin, Germany

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