The Wall Museum at the Berlin Wall

At The Wall Museum in a former mill warehouse at the East Side Gallery, you can experience history at your fingertips. In 13 rooms, the museum presents facts and events relating to the Berlin Wall in an innovative way. Audio and video installations as well as interactive stands convey a concrete, direct impression of the events surrounding this border construction: here you can learn in a vivid way how the Wall was built and what brought it down. The exhibition makes use of fascinating eyewitness accounts and historical sources.

Experience the construction and fall of the Berlin Wall through multimedia

Until 1989, the area around the former main railway station and the East Harbour was still a restricted area: watchtowers of the so-called "anti-fascist protective wall" sealed off the banks of the Spree in Berlin-Friedrichshain .

After reunification, international artists painted this section of the Wall directly on Mühlenstraße. World-famous works such as the brotherly kiss between Brezhnev and Honecker were created on the East Side Gallery . Directly behind it, on the Wall strip, stands the Mühlenspeicher. the Wall Museum will open its doors here in 2016. The museum deliberately sees itself as a multimedia exhibition. You can see video clips from the reunification period here. These include interviews with Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Helmut Kohl and Mikhail Gorbachev. In 13 differently organised rooms, the museum focuses on interesting facts about the Wall, starting with the end of the Second World War.

The film continues in 1961: follow on film how workers raise the Wall. A concrete mixer, barbed wire and original elements of the Wall provide an atmospheric setting for the images. Contemporary witnesses and text information report on the victims of the firing order, the human fate of the division and Willy Brandt's New Ostpolitik. The museum deliberately incorporates reflections on the Cold War in art. Works by Keith Haring, Pink Floyd's epic musical drama The Wall and the song "Wind of Change" by the Scorpions are part of the multimedia concept.

Interactive history of the Wall: the highlights

• multimedia information stands on the construction of the Wall with interviews with contemporary witnesses
• Video clips of interviews with people involved in the reunification period such as Helmut Kohl, Hans-Dietrich Genscher and Mikhail Gorbachev
• Wall elements from 1961, concrete mixer and barbed wire as an installation
• reconstructed East German living room from the time the Wall was built

Our recommendations for your visit

To get here, take the underground line U1. From the Schlesisches Tor stop, it's just a short walk across the Spree. On the other side, directly at the Oberbaumbrücke, you will arrive at The Wall Museum. Alternatively, take the S-Bahn and tram to Warschauer Straße station. You can get there on S-Bahn lines 5, 7 and 75 or Metro Tram 10, from where it is around 500 metres to the museum. The exhibition is also open on Mondays and there are various offers for groups and guided tours.