The Berlin Wall across the world
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 […]
Location: Musée des blindés 1 segment The four occupying powers of Germany were constantly present in Berlin during the Cold War. With the end of this period, their task have become redundant, the forces were withdrawn, sites were closed. When the French troops left, they were given a Wall segment by the Berlin Senate as […]
Location: La Gibauderie (private property) 1 segment In 1990, a dazzling auction took place in Monte Carlo, where first Wall segments were offered to art lovers and enthusiasts from around the world. 80 Wall segments came up for auction on behalf of Limex and the LeLeBerlin. The buyers were i.e. Jaguba Rizzoli and Ljiljana Hennessy, the latter former actress and heiress […]
Location: Esplanade du 9 novembre 1989 formerly Porte de Versailles 1 segment In 2006, the square Porte de Versailles in front of the Paris Exhibition and Congress Centre in the 15th Arrandissement was renamed in Esplanade du 9 novembre 1989, chute du mur de Berlin. The name change was accompanied by the erection of a Wall segment, however, […]
Location: Place de Coupole 3 segments from Kreuzberg’s Waldemarstraße King Buffo is the name of the distinctive graffito that was sprayed on the wall in Kreuzberg’s Waldemarstraße by Kiddy Citny in 1984. In 1990 the segments changed hands for 300,000 Mark and came with stopovers in Bonn and Strasbourg to Paris, where they were set […]