The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: Nemacolin Woodlands Resort 1 segment The Nemacolin Woodlands Resort is an exclusive hotel and leisure complex. The 800 hectare area is home to several hotels and restaurants, which has received highest awards. Inside the middle of the Pennsylvanian forrest a Wall segment was set up. It was a gift from Lord Peter Palumbo, a British property developer, […]
Location: Kentuck Knob 2 segments from Waldemarstraße, Kreuzberg Especially architecture enthusiasts are familiar with Kentub Knock, situated on the hills above Uniontown in West Pennsylvania: Kentuck Knob was built as one of his last by Frank Lloyd Wright for I.N. and Bernardine Hagan in the 1950s. In 1986, the property was taken over by Lord Peter Palumbo, a […]
Location: University of Virginia 4 segments Robert Hefner III. is an art lover and patron of the arts, owner of the Hefner Galleries, but above all chairman of the GHK Company, a family-owned company that has made a fortune with the oil and gas reserves in Oklahoma and Kansas. Fascinated by the events, he sent Jon Burris, curator […]
Location: Freedom Center Museum 1 segment In the end it was the result of a joint effort of the twin cities Cincinnati and Munich and other involved persons and organizations, led by Mark Mallory, Mayor of Cincinatti: the Freedom Center Museum is housing a segment of the Berlin Wall since 2010. The mission of the […]
Location: Campus of Capital University 1 segment The Wall is an important part of the culture on our campus – proudly tells the Capital University about their Wall segment, which was erected in 1992. With great care and technical complexity, in 2012 the Wall segment was moved: from the first floor of the Blackmore Library to the outside. A video of […]
Location: Marbles Kids Museum (since 2015 in Durham) 1 segment from Waldemarstraße, Kreuzberg The Marbles Kids Museum is a museum, where children up to ten years are explicitly allowed to touch anything they want to. In an exhibition area representing various regions of the world, inter alia Berlin was represented with a Wall segment. The segment has one half […]
Location: Bausch & Lomb Global Headquarters 1 segment from Brandenburg Gate Bausch & Lomb, founded in 1853 as an optician shop by German immigrants, claims to be today one of the leading manufacturers of technology-based products for the eyes. On the occasion of the inauguration of the new headquarter in 1995, the worldwide branches and subsidiaries […]
Location: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum 4 segment (artwork) The FDR Library is located halfway between New York City and Albany. A sculpture by Edwina Sandys called Freedom From Fea is on its courtyard. Sandys is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill, who coined the term Iron Curtain in the 1940s. Another Wall sculpture by Edwina Sandys […]
Location: besides the UN building 3 segments from Leipziger Platz A fragment of the Cold War hardly could be established more symbolic: to remind and to give hope on the grounds of the United Nations in New York. The ensemble with a graffito by Kani Alafi is a gift from the city of Berlin to Kofi Annan, on the occasion […]
Location: USS Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum 2 segments from Waldemarstraße (missing) The former aircraft carrier USS Intrepid now serves as Sea, Air & Space Museum and as an attraction of the harbor of New York. In 1990, a first Wall segment came to the US and was displayed on the upper deck of the warship. The […]