Berlin’s state government meets in the Senate Meeting Room. Every Tuesday the ten Senators convene here under the chairmanship of the Governing Mayor to make political decisions based on the agenda.
The Senate Meeting Room was set up in the 1950s as the Red Town Hall was reconstructed and extensively remodeled following the Second World War. At first, it served as a meeting room for East Berlin’s city government. The longer side wall features a three-part decorative panel with wood inlays. The panel portrays scenes from the reconstruction of Berlin’s city center after the Second World War: Strausberger Platz square with modern high-rise buildings; the opera house, Staatsoper Unter den Linden; and the houses on Friedrichsgracht, a riverside street. It was created by East Germany’s state-owned enterprise “Raumkunst,” a corporation owned by the German Democratic Republic (GDR). “Raumkunst” also designed the radiator covers and window trim in the Senate Meeting Room.
You can find more information here about the Berlin Senate and its work for the state of Berlin, which is not only the largest German municipality but plays an important role in Germany’s federal system as one of its 16 states.
You can only visit the Senate Meeting Room virtually.