The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: in front of Mandela Rhodes Foundation 1 segment The Mandela Rhodes Foundation is a joint venture of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Rhodes Trust. Their scholarships support the training of leaders in Africa – in the spirit of Nelson Mandela, by leadership and reconciliation, and in the spirit of Cecil Rhodes, who represented education […]
Location: Janco-Dada-Museum 1 segment In the immediate post-reunification period, the Berlin Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie organized an exhibition on the inner-German border, that was shown in many cities and met great interest. In Israel, the development in Germany was seen rather critical and distant. Nevertheless, the Janco-Dada-Museum brought the exhibition Jenseits der Mauer to the […]
Location: in front of Central House of Artists (missing since 1991) 1 segment As part of the 1991 initiated exhibition End of the Berlin Wall – Start of a new Europe a Wall segment was set up in front of the Gorky Park in Moscow. The project of the Sakharov Foundation was supported by the Berlin Museum […]
Location: in front of Sakharov Center 1 segment Even before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Elena Bonner, widow of the human rights activist Andrei Sakharov who died in late 1989, founded together with companions, close associates and colleagues a foundation to preserve the heritage of Sakharov. This resultrd in an international conference, which took place in […]
Location: at the edges of Vatican Gardens 1 segment from Waldemarstraße Born in Rome in 1952, Marco Piccininni descended from a prestigious industrial family with good contacts into the Vatican. Thus, it is well to explain that Piccininni donated a segment, which he auctioned in Monte Carlo in 1990, to Pope John Paul II in the same year. […]
Location: Garden of Malteser Caritas Hilfsdienst 2 segments Hungary was the first country to open the Iron Curtain in May 1989. Thousands of East German refugees sought shelter in the German Embassy in Budapest in the summer of 1989. As more and more people crowded there and wanted to force exit permit to the West, a […]
Location: House of Terror 1 segment Since November 2010, a Wall segment is standing in front of the House of Terror in Budapest as a memorial memorial for breaking down walls and overcoming borders. The House of Terror is dedicated to the victims of totalitarian rule. The building has a memorable past: 1880 initially built as […]
Location: Parque de la Libertad fragments (parts of a 5-piece ensemble from Sevilla) These fragments in Utrera are originally part of an ensemble which was exhibited in Sevilla during the EXPO ’92. After the end of the EXPO the brothers Luis and Ramon Gonzales Parreño asked for the smaller parts to displaying them in Utrera. […]
Location: Isla Magica 2 segments (remaining parts of a 5-piece ensemble) from Potsdamer Platz The first EXPO (world exhibition) after the Fall of the Wall took place in Sevilla in 1992. Some parts of the Berlin Wall were exhibited in the German Pavillon. Visitors were invited to take photos through the gap in the Wall.Originally the […]
Location: Parque Europe 1 segment London Bridge, Eiffel Tower, Fontana di Trevi, Brandenburg Gate – these and much more are just a few meters away from each other in the Parque Europe. In the leisure park just outside Madrid are replicas of landmarks from all over Europe. In addition, the Parque Europe includes an impressive and sumptuous diversity […]