Berlin Wall News

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.

The ticketed BlackBox Cold War pavilion closed for good in January 2026, leaving Berlin’s most famous crossing point without a permanent exhibition. A free open-air show has taken its place while some 5 million euros is assembled for a new memorial site from 2028.

The Berlin Wall Foundation’s museum at the former Marienfelde reception centre closes on 21 December 2026 for a major rebuild, reopening in mid-2028 with a new permanent exhibition on flight and migration.