Wall Museum
The Wall Museum—Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie—keeps the Berlin Wall’s story focused on people trying to get out. It opened as a private museum project to document what East German general Heinz Hoffmann called the “best border security system in the world,” and its displays trace successful escape attempts from the East through photos, related documents, and escape apparatus including hot-air balloons, getaway cars, chairlifts, and a mini–U-boat. The museum’s origins began with an exhibition by human-rights activist Rainer Hildebrandt in the street-divided Bernauer Straße area, where the “first exhibition” opened on 19 October 1962 in just “two and a half rooms.” The permanent museum on Friedrichstraße, known as Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, opened on 14 June 1963. It also researches and maintains a list of deaths at the Berlin Wall—a reminder that the archive is not abstract, but measured in lives. …
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