The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Holcim premises1 segment Like many other companies since the 1990s, the Cementeria di Merone, located just north of Milan, was absorbed into a global building materials group. However, the acquisition of a Berlin Wall segment that stubbornly resisted change can be traced back to the managing director at the time. The Cementeria had its […]
Location: Renzo Pezzani elementary school 1 segment from Kreuzberg’s Adalbertstraße The story behind this Wall segment begins in World War II: The young Mario Crotti, amateur photographer and historian, experienced the war up close in his hometown Albinea, especially the German deserters to the Italian Resistance. His meticulous research and documentation influenced the local opinion and led […]
Location: Yorkshire Sculpture Park 1 segment One of the segments that Lord Palumbo purchased in London in 1994, and partly gave away as a gift, finally landed in the Yorkshire Scultpure Park. The multi-award winning and excellent sculpture park is showing works of renowned artists such as Henry Moore, Ai Weiwei and many others on a […]
Location: National Army Museum 3 segments of the Hinterlandmauer The National Army Museum in Chelsea, London, explains the role and impact of British Army in and on world’s history. The museum itself displays due to space reasons only a small fragment of the Wall. Since 1994, three large Wall segments seem to be lost in a parking […]
Location: Royal Engineers Museum Library & Archive 3 segments The Royal Engineers Museum is dedicated to the civil and military achievements of engineering. In the military sector, objects range from the dawn of it, further to the Second World War, up to the present. The Royal Engineers 38 Squadron dismantled the part of the Berlin Wall […]