The Berlin Wall Foundation, which already runs other memorials and museums in the city, has now taken control of the East Side Gallery. It plans to preserve the artwork and run guided tours, while ...

East Side Gallery: This memorial is made up of more than 100 colorful murals on a remnant of the Berlin Wall. At 1.3 kilometers long, it's the longest open-air gallery in the world.

The East Side Gallery refers to the longest intact section of the Berlin Wall, which stretches for nearly a mile. If you want to experience the wall for the first time, this is the place to do it ...

The fall of the Berlin Wall that separated West and East Berlin from Aug. 13, 1961, to Nov. 9, 1989, ... 1989, on the West Berlin side of the wall, to keep as souvenirs.

People visit East Side Gallery a day ahead of the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Berlin, Germany on November 8th, 2024. Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images ...

Berlin’s East Side Gallery is a long stretch of wall segments muraled shortly after the reunification by over 100 artists from more than twenty countries. Photo: Nick Hilden ...

The Reds blamed the West for the blasts; Western observers, however, said the explosions seemed to come from the east side of the Wall, hinted at an organized anti-Communist resistance ring.

Activists from the former Letzte Generation group, now calling themselves Neue Generation, have written the words 'Stop ...

On Nov. 9, 1989, the communist government of East Germany announced that all residents would be permitted to travel to West Berlin and West Germany. Crowds of Eastern and Western Germans climbed ...

So, from the East Berlin side, you would first approach a wall. If you somehow got over that wall and got into the death strip, there were all sorts of trip wires.

AT THE BERLIN WALL — East Germans – told they were free to travel anywhere – wept, hugged, danced and kissed in both halves of divided Berlin today after East Germany opened its borders for ...