The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: in front of the German Embassy 1 segment When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Croatia belonged to the Yugoslav confederation. Since then, much has changed. In Germany, in Europe and around the world. A businessman from Berlin donated a Wall segment to the German Embassy in Zagreb to remind these fundamental shifts. In […]
Location: in the Parco dell’antica/Rangoni Castle, 4 segments (+ 3 stored segments) Carlo Accorsi, entrepreneur from Spilamberto, purchased seven segments of the Wall on an auction and brought them to northern Italy. He donated four of them his hometown. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Wall in November 2009, these […]
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 […]
Location: The American Air Museum / Imperial War Museum 1 segment The Imperial War Museum at Duxford is housed in the restored hangars and buildings of an airport from the Second World War. Primarily, it is about the Royal Air Force, a distinct area is used by the American Air Museum, where a Wall segment is […]
Location: Royal Air Force Museum 1 segment A scene like in the ’60s: Berliner waving over the border fortifications. An original Wall segment is part of this scenario that was built in the Royal Air Force Museum in 2007. It is part of an exhibition about the Cold War. The Wall segment is a farewell gift from […]
Location: in front of the European Court of Human Rights 4 segmente from Kreuzberg In the early 1990s, the still-East German government was asked to donate a Wall segment for a scheduled Palace of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Of course the desire was meet immediately. Full of enthusiasm, the city Strasbourg bought three other elements from Limex, which weren’t picked up at the […]