Mauermuseum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie

From escape Trabant to the chairlift up to the hot air balloon—that’s how people fled out of the DDR.

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Today, the house at Checkpoint Charlie shows an almost incomprehensible number of original means and tools that people used in their escape out of the DDR: from the hot-air balloon to the Trebant up to the chairlift.

One must see the tiny car, whose trunk was not checked on the border because no border patrol could imagine that a person could be hiding in it. Or both of the cut open and placed together suitcases, in which someone also escaped. One of the most nightmarish exhibits is surely the spring gun machine, with which the DDR lined its West German borders.

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Friedrichstraße 43-45
10969 Berlin Kreuzberg
Tel.: 030 - 2537250

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Admission adults 12,50 €, groups (20+ persons) 8,50 €, students 9,50 €, children until 6 years 0 €, pupils 7-18 years 6,50 €

daily9am - 10pm
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we went there, awful, old ,

we went there, awful, old , dirty !! Not worth going!

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we went there, awful, old ,

we went there, awful, old , dirty !! Not worth going!

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