Culture enriched in German capital

Two museums are set to open in Berlin this weekend.

The coin collection of the Bodemuseum will reopen to the public after a six-year, $6.9-million renovation, giving visitors a look at “Germany’s greatest treasure chest of old money,” said city museum director Peter-Klaus Schuster. The collection includes Greek coins from 600 BC.

The Berlinische Galerie, a museum of modern art, photography and architecture, features a collection of more than 700,000 works by such artists as George Grosz, Otto Dix and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. It opens today in the first space of its own in its 29-year history -- a former warehouse that was rebuilt at a cost of $23.6 million.