The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Militärhistorisches Museum 4 segments Both the architecture and the permanent exhibition of the Militärhistorisches Museum seek to avoid biased presentations and to challenge traditional perspectives. The exhibition confronts the visitor with his or her own potential for aggression and shows violence as a historical, cultural, and anthropological phenomenon. The exhibition area 1945 up to […]
Location: Eureka College, Ronald Reagan Peace Garden part of a segment In a May 9, 1982 speech at Eureka College, Illinois, the then U.S. President Ronald W. Reagan challenged the Soviet Union to a new era of negotiations to reduce nuclear arms – called START. The speech has been labeled “The Beginning of the End […]
Location: Miami Ironside (on the courtyard and on a parking lot) 6 segments On the occasion of the Art Basel Miami Beach 2013, a number of Berlin Wall segments were temporarily set up in Miami Beach and repainted by Thierry Noir. He became famous with his paintints on the Berlin Wall. Finally, four segments were […]
Location: Dorasan station, Unification Platform 1 segment Dorasan is the northernmost station of the South Korean railway company KORAIL, just a few kilometers away from the inner-Korean border. An ideological barrier runs right through a common history, tradition, culture and language since 1948. At some sites in South Korea parts of the Berlin Wall are […]
Location: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! several parts of the Hinterlandmauer Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! is an US based franchise company, including newspaper cartoons, comics, TV series and several museums, called oddities. In the latter, Ripley’s features in his own words game, fun, excitement, entertainment for the whole family. Berlin Wall included. After the fall […]
Location: new town hall 3 segments The three wall segments are on permanent loan from Jülich building contractor and honorary citizen Heinrich August Schüssler. Initially, the segments stood somewhat apart and unnoticed on the edge of the Schlossplatz. At the beginning of 2015, they were placed in front of the new town hall of the […]
Location: company premises 1 segment from Bernauer Straße In Menden, a monument commemorates the fall of the Berlin Wall and the desire of people for freedom. The sculpture was created by the Polish artist Dariusz Kowalski on behalf of Ernst Schulte. Ernst Schulte owns the company ECO Schulte Menden, a specialist in system technology for doors. The […]
Location: Jahnstrasse, close to local government offices 3 segments To mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall three segments were set up in Bernau. The memorial shall be a bridge to the neighbouring Berlin. But above all, it shall encourage future generations to play a part in democracy. One of the […]
Location: Niederlauer 4 segments The concept of the sculpture Blaues Tor originated from 1986: If every second segment of the Berlin Wall would have been removed, a giant stone circle would have remained. Thus was the idea by Berlin based artist and constructor Herbert ‘Jimmy’ Fell who originates from Niederaula. The four original segments are […]
Location: close to central station 1 segment The A&O Hostels invite their guests, mainly school classes, to search for historical traces right in front of the door: 25 years after the fall of the Wall one segment each was set up in front of the Hostels in Weimar, Dresden, Leipzig and Berlin. A corresponding website […]