Die Mauer | The Wall
Die Mauer | The Wall is a wheelchair-accessible museum in Berlin, presenting the Berlin Wall through photographs, objects and historical explanation. Large-format pictures give the exhibition a visual focus. Rare uniforms and armaments from the GDR border troops add material evidence to the display.
The museum traces the Wall’s history from 1961 to 1989, linking political division with personal experiences. It describes a structure that divided Berlin, Germany and Europe. Archival research addresses false historical claims and explains that construction through Berlin was neither planned nor prepared. Personal stories bring the period closer through experiences lived in the Wall’s shadow. Escape attempts, including successful and tragic ones, form part of that human story. One detail stays with you: the Wall was not built on 13 August 1961.
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The myTuur app is free, and once you are standing at a spot its story starts by itself.
Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Berlin. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.
What is myTuur?
myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.