Segments of the
Berlin Wall have been given to various institutions since the
fall of the wall on November 9, 1989. Segments are occasionally moved, so locations shown may not be accurate.
Africa
South Africa
Cape Town – A piece of the Berlin Wall is displayed in St George's Mall. The piece of the wall was given to
Nelson Mandela after a state visit to Berlin.[1][2][3]
Asia
Bangladesh
Dhaka – a segment of the wall was put on display 23 May 2010 in the Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts in the
Dhanmondi district of the city.[4]
Ein Hod – at the Dada Museum in the center of the artist's village.[6]
Japan
Yokohama – a small segment at
German School of Tokyo Yokohama. It was previously owned by Japanese clothing retail group Aoki Holdings and donated for the school on May 18, 2016.[7] A second segment with graffiti by a French artist
Thierry Noir at the front yard of the Global Technology Assessment Center of TÜV Rheinland Japan Ltd.[8]
Osaka – two segments are displayed at the Toukokuji Temple.[9]
Tokyo – a segment stands in the lobby of Nihon Bisoh Co., Ltd.[10]
Okinawa – two segments in the Kinderhaus of Ueno German Culture Village in Okinawa.[11]
Philippines
Manila – on 8 October 2015, a segment of the wall was installed at
National Museum of the Philippines. The segment was a gift to the Philippines from the City of Berlin, but had remained unclaimed in Berlin for a decade before its installation which coincided with the 25th anniversary of German reunification. It was also intended as a celebration of influence of the 1986 Filipino
People Power Revolution on the German unification movement. On 5 October 2020, the wall was transferred and displayed at the Kartilya ng Katipunan Monument.[12]
Singapore
National University of Singapore – in October 2016, two panels of the Berlin Wall were unveiled on the university campus. The panels were gifted to Singapore's
Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mark 50 years of diplomatic relations between Germany and Singapore. They were loaned to the University by the Ministry and are on display at a garden behind Tembusu College.[13]
A segment of the Berlin Wall was formerly on display at the Bedok Reservoir Park. It has since been removed replaced by new artwork. This segment had been painted by a local artist to depict two different types of rulers.[14]
A segment of the Berlin Wall is on display at the Internal Security Department Heritage Centre
South Korea
Seoul – three sections of the wall are displayed along the recently restored
Cheonggyecheon (청계천) stream in central
Seoul and were presented in conjunction with the restoration project. The sections are adjacent to the Samilgyo (삼일교) bridge across the stream.
Sokcho – two sections of the Berlin Wall are on display at the DMZ Museum north of Sokcho.[15]
Canberra – a section of the Berlin Wall has been placed in front of the clubhouse of the
Harmonie German Club in the suburb of
Narrabundah in the Australian capital. The segment weighs 3.5 tonnes, is 3.6 metres high and nearly two metres wide. It once stood in Potsdamer Platz, close to the Brandenburg Gate. It was unveiled on 3 October 1992.[17]
Sydney – a section of the Berlin Wall was placed on display outside the
Goethe Institute in the suburb of
Woollahra in 2019. It had been imported to Australia in the early 1990s, but held in storage in a warehouse.[18]
New Zealand
Christchurch – two sections of the Berlin Wall were placed in Rauora Park, near
Cashel Street, in the center of the city. These segments were imported in 2017, stored for some time, and then placed in the park having been decorated with street art by Kophie Su’a-Hulsbosch (Meep) and Jessie Rawcliffe.[19]
Brussels – two segments of the wall are on display outside the
European Commission, a segment also stands outside the
European Parliament offices. A further two segments are on display in front of the
NATO Headquarters building inaugurated in 2017. A segment stands in
Leopold Park – moved to be next to the segment found outside the European Parliament in 2021, and at the headquarters of
Elia Group in
Schaerbeek. In 2009, 16 wall segments were temporarily exhibited in the
Place du Luxembourg to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Wall.[21]
Ghent – a segment of wall is on display outside the
Flanders Expo convention center. This segment originally stood on
Potsdamer Platz.[22] A second segment stands in the
Zwevezele garden of the former Flanders Expo executive who arranged the display of the wall.
Antwerp – in 2015, a segment was installed outside the Ampere nightclub.[23]
Plovdiv – a segment of the wall, painted by French artist
Thierry Noir, was unveiled in front of Exhibition Hall 2019 in Bulgaria's city of
Plovdiv on December 19, 2019.[24]
Croatia
Zagreb – a segment was unveiled in 2009 outside the German embassy in
Zagreb.[25]
Langeland – since 2011, a segment has been on display at the Koldkrigsmuseum Langelandsfort (Cold War Museum Langelandsfort), a former
Danish Navy submarine bunker. This segment was a gift from the City of Berlin and was originally located at Potsdamer Platz.
Estonia
Tallinn – a segment of the wall was installed outside the
Museum of Occupations in November 2014. The segment was a gift to Estonia from the Senate of Berlin, and originally formed part of the wall along Potsdamer Platz.[28]
France
Angers – a segment of the wall is on display inside a contemporary theatre called Le Quai. It played a central role in the 2011 edition of the Les Accroche-coeurs festival.[29]
Verdun – a segment of the wall is at the Centre Mondial de la Paix.
Germany
Berlin – a section of four segments is on display with the external exhibits of the
Allied Museum along with a border guard tower and the
Checkpoint Charlie guard house. On 13 February 2008, a segment of the Berlin Wall was installed in the courtyard of the
U.S. Embassy Berlin on 13 February 2008, "to serve as a reminder of the past and a symbol of hope for the future".[34] A growing collection of painted sections of the wall are on permanent display in Stralauer Allee 3. On
Friedrichstrasse, a segment of the wall can be seen next to the Mauermuseum, 40m south of Checkpoint Charlie. On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Wall in November 2009, two wall segments were set up in front the
John F. Kennedy high school building. The two segments were cemented back-to-back, whereby the respective short foot extensions of the bases were cut off. The "West" side is painted with colorful graffiti whereas the "East" side is colored historical plain white.[35]
Diedorf – seven segments of the wall displayed near Schmutterhalle. The segments are owned by Mathias Maresch who bought them for DM 2000,- after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Frankfurt – a segment of the wall is on display, possibly temporarily (as of August 2019), near the Goethe House. It is outside of the Leica store at the intersection of Am Salzhaus and Großer Hirschgraben.
Hamburg – a segment of the wall is in front of the Elbphilharmonie at Platz der Deutschen Einheit, Hamburg.
Hamm – a segment of the wall can be found at Harringholzstr. 37.
Hanover – a segment of the wall is located on Weißekreuzplatz.
Herford – a segment of the wall is located on Berliner Straße.[36]
Weimar – two segments are installed outside the Atrium shopping Center.
Witten – segments of the wall signed by the
Thierry Noir can be found in Witten.
Greece
Thessaloniki – a segment of Berlin wall can be found in the garden of Goethe Institut. It was formerly located in a square of the citadel of Lagadas, given as a gift by city of
Steglitz-Zehlendorf (the sixth
borough of Berlin), upon the twinning of the two cities in 2012.
Hungary
Budapest – two sections of the Berlin Wall were originally placed on Krisztina Blvd, in the
Tabán district of the city. These were later moved, after someone painted them completely red, to the garden of the Maltese Charity Service in Budapest, where they still stand.[37] Another section of the Berlin Wall was erected in front of Budapest's House of Terror Museum on Thursday, November 11, 2010, in the presence of Hungarian and German politicians. The ceremony marked the 21st anniversary of the fall of the wall.[38]
Iceland
Reykjavík – a segment of wall was gifted to the City of Reykjavík from the Neu West Berlin Art Gallery on October 3, 2015, the Day of German Unity, coinciding with the 25th anniversary of German unification in 1990. As of 2022, this segment of the
Berlin Wall is on display at the end of the parking for the
Höfði House, where
Ronald Reagan and
Mikhail Gorbachev held their
Reykjavík Summit in October 1986.
Spilamberto – on
Valentine's Day 2008, ten segments of the Berlin Wall were delivered to the town of Spilamberto, near
Modena. Three of these segments are in public display in the garden of the Rocca Rangoni. By displaying the pieces the town of Spilamberto hopes to affirm its self-proclaimed identity as a town of diversity.
Trondheim – displayed with the word "SALE" on four pieces, it is located beside Solsiden Mall and Portalen.
Poland
Gdańsk – a complete section is displayed at the entrance to Roads to Freedom exhibition at the
Solidarity Museum, adjacent to a section of the wall
Lech Walesa climbed to lead the shipyard workers campaign.[39]
Warsaw – four sections are located in the open air, on the Kopernika Street 30 as part of
Solidarity monument. Another section is in the Museum of
John Paul II and Primate Wyszyński in the Temple of Divine Providence.
Portugal
Fátima – the
Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima, in
Cova da Iria, contains a segment of the Wall on the south side of the Rectory. This segment was offered by means of Virgilio Casimiro Ferreira, a
Portuguese immigrant to Germany, and is incorporated into a memorial designed by the architect J. Carlos Loureiro, inaugurated on 13 August 1994.[40]
São João da Madeira – a segment of wall is on display in the sculpture park of Oliva Creative Factory, home to the Centro de Arte Oliva. This segment of the Berlin Wall from Potsdamer Platz was acquired by collectors Norlinda and José Lima in 2018 and donated to the local municipality in 2021, 30km outside
Porto.
Moscow – in 1990 the fragment of the wall was presented by the Berlin authorities to the Saharov Museum and Public Centre. Another fragment of the Berlin Wall has been installed on the grounds of a German school.[41]
Spain
Madrid – three sections of the Berlin Wall are installed as the centrepiece of a pond in the Parque de Berlín, in the
Chamartín district. These segments were a present from the City of Berlin to the City of Madrid and were inaugurated on November 9, 1990 (first anniversary of the fall).[42] Another segment of wall can be found in
Torrejón de Ardoz outside Madrid, in the Parque Europa.[43]
Redondela,
Galicia – a segment of wall stands outside the Multiusos da Xunqueira.
Bodmin – a large piece of the Berlin Wall (believed to be one of the largest in the UK after the
Imperial War Museum London) is on display at the Cornwall Regimental Museum in
Bodmin.
Cosford – a segment of the Berlin Wall stands in the
Checkpoint Charlie exhibit at the
Royal Air Force Museum at Cosford. A major display, dealing with the British role in the Four Power Control of Berlin, is centred upon a dramatised section of the wall as part of the National Cold War Exhibition.
The Vatican – a section of Berlin wall is displayed in the
Vatican Gardens. It was gifted to the Vatican by Marco Piccininni in August 1994 after Piccininni acquired it in an auction of wall segments in
Monte Carlo in 1990.[49] The segments from the
Oranienplatz show part of
St Michael's Church in
Mitte; the parish of which was divided by the wall. A clear view of St Michael's from the Oranienplatz was not possible between 1961 and 1990, because of the Berlin Wall. The lower half of the church, which could not be seen because of the concrete segments of the wall, was painted on the western part of the wall, as
Trompe-l'œil, by the Berlin-based, Iranian artist Yadegar Asisi on the initiative of Berlin architect Bernhard Strecker, in order to demonstrate the "permeability" of the wall (Mauerdurchblick).[50][51][52][53][54][55][56]
Dartmouth – a piece of the Berlin Wall is on display at the World Peace Pavilion in the
Halifax Regional Municipality on city waterfront. It is encased in a display case, along with other items of importance from around the world.[57]
Lunenburg – there is a large piece of the wall situated on Falkland Street across from the Old Lunenburg Foundry.
Toronto – a small chunk of the Berlin Wall is embedded into the base of the Freedom Arches in
Nathan Phillips Square near Toronto City Hall.[59] The arches were dedicated in 1989, to commemorate those who fought to obtain or defend freedom.
Niagara Falls - a section of the Berlin Wall is on display at the Ripley’s Believe it or Not Museum.[60]
Québec
Montréal – a segment of the Berlin Wall has been given by the city of Berlin to the city of
Montréal in 1992 for its 350th birthday. The segment comes from a location near
Brandenburg Gate and is now displayed in the
Centre de Commerce Mondial.
Fort Huachuca – a section of the wall is displayed in the Military Intelligence Heritage Museum.
Arkansas
Eureka Springs – a ten-foot by ten-foot section of the Berlin Wall was erected next to the Church in the Grove. On it, is painted in German "though I walk through the dark valley, I will not fear" from Psalm 23. The church acquired this piece as a tribute and celebration of the Christian faith in the face of adversity.[62]
California
Culver City – the
Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War features a wall segment that stands at the museum's entrance, which was painted by the French-born, Berlin-based artist
Thierry Noir. The exhibition Facing the Wall: Living with the Berlin Wall, currently on display at the Wende Museum explores how the Wall became part of the urban fabric of Berlin, and the place where the realities of political ideology and personal experience came face to face.[63] The museum's Berlin Wall segment was augmented in 2010 by 10 additional sections, constituting the longest stretch outside of Berlin. They are currently on display in front of the
5900 Wilshire Boulevard building, painted and installed as part of the Wende's project organized to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.[64]
Los Angeles – a segment of wall is displayed on the main campus of
Loyola Marymount University. Other segments can be found at the Variety Building on
5900 Wilshire and the Reef Building Downtown at 1933 S Broadway as part of the LUME
Street art Exhibit. At the latter,
RISK (graffiti artist) decorated the segments with his signature Butterflies while the Svetlana Talabolina dedicated a section
statelessness.
Monterey – three segments are on display at the U.S. Army Defense Language Institute-Foreign Language Center.
Mountain View – two segments of the wall are displayed outside of the
Mountain View Public Library. A plaque memorializes the fall of the wall as "a tribute to American resolve." A cartoon of
Elvis is painted on one segment, and the other carries the words "Wir lieben Dich" (We love you). The segments and plaque were relocated to this location after they were donated to the city by the descendants of a German-born American business man, Frank Golzen, who originally displayed them at an office park.[65]
Orange –
Chapman University's main campus displays the second largest piece of the Berlin Wall owned by an American university west of the Mississippi River.[66]
San Bernardino – a 4 meter segment of the Berlin Wall was dedicated at the
Ronald Reagan Park as part of the Reagan centenary celebrations. The wall segment has been repainted with a black and white image of President Reagan along with his quote "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! 6/12/1987 adorning one side.
Yorba Linda – a segment of the Berlin Wall is on display at the
Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace. The Nixon Library's segment of the wall is similar in size to the segment of the wall displayed at the Reagan Library.
Colorado
Denver – Captain Herbert Light brought a piece of the Berlin Wall to Colorado, where it is paired with a sculpture by Veryl Goodnight called "The Day the Wall Came Down at the Mizel Museum."[67]
Florida
Miami – four segments of the wall are now in the public art collection of
Ironside. They were temporarily displayed in
South Beach during
Art Basel 2013 fair before becoming the symbol of the district.
Fort Eisenhower – two sections of the Berlin Wall are incorporated in a display that includes a plaque inscribed to "recognize the sacrifices that the United States military made in guaranteeing a free, stable and democratic Europe" in Freedom Park on this US Army installation near
Augusta. There is also a segment of the wall at the Signal Corps Museum located within Fort Eisenhower.
Kennesaw – a piece of the Berlin Wall was given to
Kennesaw State University on loan, which is being displayed outside of the Social Science building.
Suwannee – a piece of the Berlin Wall is on display in the town center park.[68]
Hawaii
Honolulu – a slab of the wall rests secretly behind the University of Hawaii Honolulu Community College book store on campus.
Idaho
Sandpoint – a segment of the Berlin Wall, protected by plexiglass, is located on the Hope Peninsula.[69]
Illinois
Chicago – the Chicago
Berlin Monument contains a segment of the wall inside the
Western Ave. CTA Station. The Lincoln Square neighborhood that the station serves has been historically German.
Eureka – In a May 9, 1982 speech at
Eureka College, President Reagan challenged the Soviet Union to a new era of negotiations to reduce nuclear arms—called
START. A segment of the Berlin Wall is on display in the Ronald Reagan Peace Garden on campus.
Wheaton – a segment of the wall is located at
Cantigny Park's First Division museum.
Fort Leavenworth – three sections are displayed in a "falling position" just east of the fort's lake near the Buffalo Soldiers Monument.
Wichita – a section of the wall is on loan to the Museum of World Treasures[70] from the American Overseas Schools Historical Society.[71] The section was originally purchased by the Berlin Brats Alumni Association.[72]
Kentucky
Fort Knox – a section of the Berlin Wall containing
graffiti with the words "democracy", "freedom", and the phrase "Tear the wall down" written on it can be found at the
Patton Museum of Cavalry and Armor as a permanent exhibit.
Maine
Portland – a segment of the Berlin Wall is located in the
Old Port.
Fulton – eight segments of the Wall can be seen at
Westminster College, where
Winston Churchill gave his famous
Iron Curtain speech. The pieces of wall chosen by Churchill's granddaughter
Edwina Sandys from an area near the
Brandenburg Gate, and they were gifted by the Berlin authorities to the college in 1990, to become part of the Winston Churchill Memorial Library.[76]
New York City – at least four segments of the wall are located in
New York City. One can be found between Gateway Plaza and the North Cove marina in the
World Financial Center near the
World Trade Center site. A second segment can be found in the gardens at the United Nations headquarters,[77] among the sculptures. A third segment exists on
53rd Street between
Fifth and
Madison Avenues. A fourth segment was to be found at the
Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum (now closed) in
Times Square.
Thierry Noir and
Kiddy Citny are the two painters of those five pieces of the Berlin Wall, painted in September 1985 along the Waldemarstrasse in Berlin Kreuzberg.[78] The segment of the Berlin Wall shown at the right was originally located at Waldemarstrasse in Berlin. This graffiti among others along Waldemarstreet were well documented in 1985 through ten poster photos made by photographers Liselotte and Armin Orgel-Köhne.[79]
Rochester – Every Wall Falls Eventually is the name of a piece of the Berlin Wall on display in the food court area of the
Bausch and Lomb Headquarters. It was installed there in 1995. This no longer resides in Rochester, NY because in 2013 Bausch and Lomb was purchased by Valeant Pharmaceuticals. The wall was given to a CEO in Switzerland as part of the business deal in August 2014.
Stony Point – a section of the wall is located outside of the Stony Point Justice Court.
Durham – a segment of Berlin Wall from Waldemarstrasse can be found at
The Frontier in Research Triangle Park today displaying graffiti by
Kiddy Citny dating from 1985, and is one of the two famous graffiti "hearts" made by this artist.
Bexley –
Capital University's Blackmore Library once housed the largest section of the Berlin Wall in the United States. When Blackmore Library was renovated, this section was moved outside behind Huber-Spielman Hall and sprayed with a protective layer to preserve the concrete and keep it from eroding. The segment was moved once again to its current location outside the entrance of Blackmore Library.
Cincinnati – a section of the Berlin Wall is on display outside of the
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in downtown. This section is said to be a gift from the city of Berlin, Germany and depicts in red paint what appears to be half of a woman's face.
Pennsylvania
Chalk Hill – two segments of the wall are on the property of the
Frank Lloyd Wright designed
I.N. Hagan house.
Lord Peter Palumbo, after purchasing the house in 1986, put one section of the wall in the sculpture meadow, and the other along the drive leading up to the house.
Warminster – a section of wall is on display at Vereinigung Erzgebirge, Warminster's local German-American club in 1991. It was the first segment that was sent to America after the fall of the wall and was presented in the 1990
Steuben parade in Philadelphia.[82]
South Carolina
Spartanburg – two segments of the Berlin Wall are located on the front lawn of a German business, Menzel Inc. They are easily seen from
Interstate 85 Business.[83]
South Dakota
Mount Rushmore – a small section of the wall is contained in the "Honoring Native American Veterans" exhibit in one of the visitor centers.
Rapid City – a section of the Berlin Wall is located near the downtown area.
Texas
College Station – a section of the Wall is on display inside the
George Bush Presidential Library, as well as outside the museum as part of a 1997 sculpture entitled The Day the Wall Came Down, by
Veryl Goodnight, which depicts five horses running through rubble of the wall. A similar 1998 sculpture, also containing pieces of the Berlin Wall, is located at the
Allied Museum in Berlin.[84] This was given as a gift from the United States to Germany.
Dallas – Two segments of the wall are on display in the sculpture garden of the
Hilton Anatole hotel. The two sections are each 12 feet (3.7 m) tall.
Seattle – a piece of the wall rests in the Center House at
Seattle Center. A section of the wall is also on display in the Sculpture Garden at History House of Greater Seattle, a museum located in the Fremont neighborhood.
District of Columbia
Johns Hopkins University – a segment of the wall was given to the university by the
Senate of Berlin in 1997. It was given to the Nitze School and the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies and stands in tribute to the success of the German-American partnership and as a symbol of the peaceful end of the Cold War. It is on display outside of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) building entrance just south of Dupont Circle on Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.[87]
Newseum – until it closed in 2019 the largest section of the Berlin Wall outside of Germany could be found in the Newseum's Berlin Wall gallery.[88] This had previously been displayed at
Freedom Park in
Rosslyn, Virginia[89] The exhibit included eight sections of the wall and an
East German guard tower from
Checkpoint Charlie.
Central America
Guatemala
Guatemala City – three fragments of the Berlin Wall are displayed at the Berlin Square, at the end of Las Américas Avenue.[90]
Nuevo Berlín - a 5kg segment of the wall was donated to the city of Nuevo Berlín by the Uruguayan-German Chamber of Commerce in 1991.[92][93]
Argentina
Buenos Aires – a segment can be found in the gardens of the
San Martin Palace. It was a gift of German government to Argentina in November 1999 on the tenth anniversary of the fall of the wall.[94] A number of segments can also be found in the lobby of the office of the Argentine newspaper
Perfil.[95] Editorial Perfil, the publishers, claims that these segments were obtained in exchange for funds to build a school in Germany.[95]
Unknown locations
Eight 4 meter tall pieces of the wall, measuring ten meters in length, with the logo of the Toronto punk band
Bunchofuckingoofs were put up for auction at Sotheby's in 2007 after an exhibition in Basel, Switzerland and then New York City. Their current location is unknown.[96]
^LOSC (9 November 2019).
De Berlin à Luchin – via Facebook. A piece of the wall is located at our Domaine de Luchin HQ and is decorated with the portrait of one Eden Hazard.
^Berlin – Seite für Seite. Literaturauswahl zur 750-Jahr-Feier. A bibliography about Berlin, with 10 photos showing the Berlin wall segments along Waldemarstreet. Edition: Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek / Berliner Zentralbibliothek. Berlin, 1986. 52 pages,
ISBN3-925516-04-2