Berlin Wall

Bernauer Straße was the border between the districts of Wedding (West) and Mitte (East).

The puzzle tour starts in Weinbergspark at Rosenthaler Platz and ends after eleven stations at the Berlin Wall Memorial. It tells the story of the escape attempt of the GDR art dealer Siegfried Kath, and was developed with a historian and a history teacher. As a school trip activity in Berlin, it takes two hours and one smartphone per team.

The central Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Straße shows the permanent exhibition "1961 | 1989. The Berlin Wall".

Among all Berlin sights the Brandenburg Gate is clearly one of the classics.

Friedrichhain's East Side Gallery is with its 1.361 metres the longest open air gallery in the world and at the same time the longest piece of the Berlin Wall still standing!

Follow the path of the Berlin Wall and discover a major part of Berlin’s history by foot or by bike.

Friedrichhain's East Side Gallery is with its 1.361 metres the longest open air gallery in the world and at the same time the longest piece of the Berlin Wall still standing!

The asisi Panorama THE WALL in Berlin-Mitte takes visitors right next to Checkpoint Charlie on an impressive journey through time into divided Berlin of the 1980s. Here, artist Yadegar Asisi recreates life in the shadow of the Berlin Wall across 900 square meters, allowing visitors to look directly into the scene from a high platform and experience German-German history up close.

Friedrichhain's East Side Gallery is with its 1.361 metres the longest open air gallery in the world and at the same time the longest piece of the Berlin Wall still standing!

The Berlin Wall Memorial is the central place of the German division and is in the historical site of Bernauer Strasse.

A very special city tour is the Berlin Free Tour. Here every participant pays as much as he or she wants.

The large Panorama wall of the artist Yadegar Asisi visualizes the daily life next to the Berlin wall on a fictitious autumn day in the 1980s.

The Wall Museum East Side Gallery is located directly in the Mühlenspeicher (mill warehouse) on the Spree and offers a deep insight into the history of German division. With over 100 screens and exciting interviews, this exhibition tells the events from 1961 until the fall of the Berlin Wall in a modern way.

At Friedrichstraße station, there is a glass and steel pavilion that served as the departure hall at the border between East and West Berlin during GDR times. Today, the Tränenpalast (Palace of Tears) houses a permanent exhibition about everyday life in divided Germany, with free admission.

At bob - boxoffberlin in Kreuzberg you can find posters, post cards, graphic print, photos and original T-shirts by designers from Berlin.

The fun-fueled karaoke night in the in-house microbrewery of the Circus Hostel in Berlin-Mitte at Rosenthalerplatz is about to attain cult status.

The fast-paced Berlin Musical "Hinterm Horizont" at the Stage Theater on Potsdamer Platz tells with 20 legendary songs by Udo Lindenberg a love story between East and West in the times of the Berlin Wall and barbed wire.

Where was the Berlin Wall? This is the question city guides get asked most frequently.

The city tour City Circle PURPLE Tour in a yellow doubledecker bus traces the former Berlin Wall and takes you to the trendy Berlin of today.

The Berlin edition of Madame Tussaud's wax museum located Unter den Linden is the right place for those who always wanted to take a picture with Elyas M’Barek, Angelina Joli or Matthias Schweighöfer.

Directly opposite Berlin's longest preserved section of the Wall, in the heart of Friedrichshain: The MEININGER Hotel East Side Gallery sleeps at mural-level, everything from Berghain to Oberbaumbrücke is on your doorstep, and the interior cleverly plays with the heritage of a divided city.

Where did the Berlin Wall stand? The Berlin Wall Trail makes history tangible, on foot or by bicycle.

The Berlin Mauerweg gives the answer to the frequently asked question where the Berlin Wall stood.

The monument "Parliament of Trees" was created by artist Ben Wargin in 1990 and commemorates the people who died on the Berlin Wall.

This memorial site commemorates the victims of gunfire and barbed wire at the Berlin Wall and is named after Günter Litfin, the first victim of precision shooting at the Wall.