Berlin Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie

The Berlin Wall Museum at Checkpoint Charlie was founded in 1963 by human rights activist Rainer Hildebrandt a year after the Berlin Wall was erected. The museum presents the history of the Berlin Wall, an exhibition on the international struggle for human rights, where the main theme is the history of successful and failed escapes from East Berlin.

Checkpoint Charlie is the most famous checkpoint between the Soviet and American occupation zones, located in the northern part of the Kreuzberg quarter and operated only from west to east between the 1960s and 1990s. Here, there were constant conflicts between the former allies, and in October 1961, tanks stood on both sides of the checkpoint for several days in full combat readiness.

The museum, located in one of the neighboring houses, will present to your attention a variety of devices for surveillance, espionage and protection of the Iron Curtain, however, there are enough devices for organizing an escape from the “socialist paradise”.

Also on Friedrichstrasse you can visit a photo exhibition dedicated to the history of checkpoint Charlie, which is accompanied not only by German, but also Russian comments and is held in the open air.