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The municipal tourist information service BTM has offices in the Europa-Center, near Brandenburg Gate and in Tegel airport. There you can obtain leaflets and up-to-date information as well as souvenirs and general brochures on Berlin. A telephone hotline gives information about all current events.

Detailed up-to-date information on the state museums and all the establishments on Museumsinsel can be obtained from a bilingual phoneline. Here you will also find out about the current programme of events – for example about the “long night of the museums”.

The visitors’ advice service for the palaces and gardens of Potsdam and Sanssouci supplies accurate information and tips as well as guided tours and more via their own telephone service.

Potsdam has its own tourist information service, offering brochures, an accommodation service and guided tours.

The Berlin Tourismus Marketing GmbH (BTM) has a telephone hotline which will help reserve a room (for a fee). Several offices also arrange private accommodation, where visitors book into shared apartments for a period of several days or weeks.

There are two fortnightly city magazines with detailed information on all kinds of events – tip and zitty . The monthly Berlin-Programm with detailed events listings is also worth consulting. For younger readers, the magazines prinz , and 030 contain information on nightclubs and bars. Daily newspapers such as Tagesspiegel , Berliner Zeitung and Berliner Morgenpost usually publish listings of cultural events on Wednesdays and Thursdays respectively, while tips and reviews can be found in the papers every day.

For radio news in English, you can tune into Inforadio (93.1 MHz), the BBC World Service (90.2 MHz) or the multi-lingual SFB 4 Multikulti (106.8 MHz).

In addition to the national TV stations, the RBB offers a regional programme; tv berlin, a private TV station, also broadcasts information on what’s on. Thanks to cable and satellite you can also easily tune into English programmes.

This Senate Office, which deals with the concerns of foreign nationals who live in Berlin, is also a good point of advice for foreign visitors.

Advice and information for gay and lesbian visitors is always available at Mann-o-Meter (see Gay & Lesbian Attractions) .