Berlin Wall News

After the 2009 repainting only one 1990 original was left at the East Side Gallery. It is now being conserved, and a painting exiled to the park in 1997 is back.

Berlin chose a design for Checkpoint Charlie on 9 September 2026: an open square, a roof, a viewing platform, and the guard house stays. What it does, and when.

A district exhibition in Reinickendorf hangs the Stasi’s photographs of the border beside residents’ own snapshots of it. Free, and on until 3 October.

The Berlin Wall Foundation’s touring exhibition makes fourteen little-known photographs of Bernauer Strasse audible, with audio descriptions, Braille and a free online edition anyone can open.

A special exhibition at the Berlin Wall Memorial pairs Marie Jeschke’s art with historical objects to tell the story of escapes across the Baltic Sea. It runs until 20 September 2026.

Large-format signs in the S-Bahn stations and exhibition panels at Friedrichstrasse and Nordbahnhof retell how the Wall cut through Berlin’s railway network.

The Berlin Wall Foundation’s touring exhibition has opened at Union Station in Kansas City – its North American premiere, with more than 200 original objects including sections of the Wall itself, on show until 13 December 2026.

He got himself out of East Germany on a Swiss passport that was not his, then spent a decade getting other people out – most famously through Tunnel 29 under Bernauer Strasse. Hasso Herschel died on 21 May 2026.