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Wall Museum

The Wall Museum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie is a private museum in . It is named after the through the Berlin Wall, and was created to document the so-called "best border security system in the world".
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mauermuseum.de
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  • Opening hours: 10:00 AM—6:00 PM
  • Email: info@mauermuseum.de
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: museum in Berlin, Germany
  • Also known as: “Checkpoint Charlie Museum” and “Wall Museum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Address: Friedrichstraße 43-45, Kreuzberg, Berlin, 10969
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Checkpoint Charlie and Brandenburg Gate.

Photo: Adrian Purser, CC BY-SA 2.0.
was the Western Bloc's name for the best-known Berlin Wall crossing point between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War, becoming a symbol of the Cold War, representing the separation of East and West.

Photo: Der Wolf im Wald, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is an 18th-century neoclassical monument in . One of the best-known landmarks of Germany, it was erected on the site of a former that marked the start of the road from Berlin to , the former capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg. is situated 1¼ km northwest of Wall Museum.

Museum
Photo: Slimark, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe. On 3,500 square metres of floor space, the museum presents the history of the Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day, with new focuses and new scenography. is situated 630 metres southeast of Wall Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Friedrichstadt and Friedrichswerder.

Quarter
Photo: Tanweer Morshed, CC BY-SA 3.0.
was an independent suburb of , and is now a historical neighbourhood of the city itself. The neighbourhood is named after the Prussian king Frederick I.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood, situated in the locality of , part of the . It is identical to the town of , founded in 1662, which was an independent town until 1710.

Quarter
is a historic zone or neighbourhood of central , , which forms part of the locality of within the borough also called .

Wall Museum

Latitude
52.50719° or 52° 30′ 26″ north
Longitude
13.39068° or 13° 23′ 26″ east
Open location code
9F4MG94R+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2401869345
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q382575
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Turkish—“Wall Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف نقطة تفتيش تشارلي”
  • Chinese: “查理檢查哨博物館”
  • Czech: “Checkpoint Charlie Muzeum”
  • Danish: “Checkpoint Charlie Museum”
  • Dutch: “Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Esperanto: “Mura Muzeo - Museum Haus en Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Esperanto: “Mura Muzeo Charlie”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo Ĉekpoint Charlie”
  • French: “musée du Mur”
  • French: “Musée du Mur”
  • German: “Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie”
  • German: “Mauermuseum”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Titik Pengecekan Charlie”
  • Italian: “Checkpoint Charlie Museum”
  • Italian: “Museo del Muro”
  • Japanese: “Mauermuseum|”
  • Japanese: “Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Japanese: “チェックポイント・チャーリー博物館”
  • Japanese: “ベルリンの壁博物館”
  • Korean: “체크포인트 찰리 박물관”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Murmuseet i Berlin”
  • Norwegian: “Murmuseet i Berlin”
  • Polish: “Muzeum Muru Berlińskiego”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul zidului Berlinului”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul Zidului Berlinului”
  • Russian: “Музей Берлинской стены”
  • Slovenian: “Muzej Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Spanish: “Museo del Muro del Checkpoint Charlie”
  • Turkish: “Checkpoint Charlie Müzesi”

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