Wall Museum - Checkpoint Charlie

5 Maksim Blair - 4 months ago

The museum was a little pricey, but if you are looking for a great way to kill several hours while in Berlin and have an interest in history it is great. The museum was very large it did not contain as many artifacts as having pictures and lots of text, but I found it very enjoyable and they have displays which go into other conflicts such as the Korean War. Also an amazing gift shop. I highly recommend for those interested in history!!

2 charlie just charlie - 9 months ago

the souvenir shop as seen in the photographs is awesome, the museum is a joke. fifteen bucks (another additional five for a less-than-useful audio guide) for a couple of rooms filled with enough script to simply publish a book for the same price at the door. the whole exhibition is very outdated.

4 Christian McCulloch - 11 months ago

Great museum detailing events after the end of World War II and beyond the fall of the Berlin Wall including the recent conflicts in Syria and Ukraine. Although the Checkpoint Charlie area has become a bit of a tourist trap it is still well worth visiting due to the vast amount of information. Very informative, you can easily spend way over an hour in here.

5 Venula Tharusha - 6 months ago

The Checkpoint Charlie Museum (German: Das Mauermuseum – Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie) is a private museum in Berlin. It is named after the famous border crossing at the Berlin Wall and was created to document what was called "the best border security system in the world" (in the words of East German General Heinz Hoffmann). You can see the photos and related documents of successful escape attempts from the GDR as well as the escape devices: hot air balloons, getaway cars, chair lifts and a mini submarine. The museum researches and maintains a list of those who died at the Berlin Wall. It is run by Mauermuseum-Betriebs gGmbH, headed by Alexandra Hildebrandt.

3 Heather Byrnes - 11 months ago

A tip: don't pay for the audio guide. There is sooooo much reading to do here that you can't both listen and read at the same time.

Also, there doesn't seem to be a logical order to the rooms or exhibits and you have to be choosy about what you read, because it gets confusing because it seems to jump between years and decades and individuals and issues and events. I think literally every question that could ever be asked about the Wall, the check points, life in East Berlin, the smugglers, the politics, geography and anything else about the Cold War era is answered, somewhere, in this museum.

The artifacts are really amazing. I would have rated higher if there was a logical order to the rooms and markers on the walls or floors to tell you where to go next. Even if things were moved around to represent a different decade per floor, or per side of a floor, it would make more sense and be more cohesive. I felt overwhelmed with all the things to read, and when I finished one Board and started the next and then the next, I was jumping back and forth in time.

It is interesting though, and in some spots, very moving. I found the two rooms dedicated to Syria and Ukraine very very moving and emotional. Germany should be so proud of how they have handled and helped in these crises. The human rights exhibits were wonderful.

I love the view from the room with all the windows, of the check point and building across the street and square with the panorama. It felt odd though that there was such propaganda towards Ronald Reagan in one of the rooms, especially given the rooms for human rights and non-violence on either side of the "Reagan room", and his record of treatment of American prisoners and the LGBTQ community during the AIDS epidemic in the 80s... anyway.

You could spend hours and hours here. It's worth the ticket, but not the ticket plus the audio guide.

2 Hendrik van Renesse - 7 months ago

It’s a bit of a race against the clock to read the amount of text. A lot of information which is put throughout a massive exposition. Won’t recommend with children.

Place does need an technical upgrade as 90% of interactive items are not working.

1 davide rociola - 4 weeks ago

Do not enter!
One of the worst museums i've ever been in my entire life!

With that 17 euro i could have bought either 3 döner kebab or 4 currywurst.

There is no a logic thorougt the path, full of random writings and some pics, i felt like in the holocaust memorial, lost.