60+ The Mauer Museum Berlin
This is what you need to know when planning your visit.
The mauer museum berlin. There are sections where the wall is still standing intact. The home of freedom since 1963 mauermuseum museum haus am checkpoint charlie. It is named after the famous crossing point on the berlin wall and was created to document the so called best border security system in the world in the words of east german general heinz hoffmann. Our museum is located right next to the east side gallery at the mühlenspeicher on mühlenstrasse no.
This is a free open air museum which is an approximately one mile stretch along bernauer strasse where remnants of the berlin wall still remain. Das mauermuseum museum haus am checkpoint charlie is a private museum in berlin. The museum café is open every day from 9 00 a m. Get your first look at the history of the berlin wall and the challenges we must face to this day in the fight for global recognition of human rights freedom and democracy.
Armed gdr units hermetically seal the city surrounding west berlin and construction of the wall begins. The exhibition covers an audiovisual arc from the division of germany and the construction of the berlin wall through the cold war and the fate of the wall victims to the significant events that brought about the fall of the wall. The gedenkstätte berliner mauer berlin wall memorial commemorates the division of berlin by the berlin wall and the deaths that occurred there. The checkpoint charlie museum german.
Our museum is open every day of the year. 78 80 berlin friedrichshain and easy to reach by public transportation or by car. Every day from 9 00 a m. Rings um west berlin riegeln bewaffnete verbände der ddr die stadt hermetisch ab der bau der mauer beginnt.
Politburo member günter schabowski announces the gdr government s decree that private trips abroad and without the fulfilment of requirements may be applied for.