Freedom Park

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Replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue at Freedom Park.
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Replica of the Goddess of Democracy statue at Freedom Park.
Segments of the Berlin Wall in Freedom Park
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Segments of the Berlin Wall in Freedom Park

Freedom Park is an outdoor museum in Arlington, Virginia. It was founded in 1996 to celebrate the spirit of freedom and the struggle to preserve it. The Freedom Park is a joint-venture with the Newseum and Freedom Forum Journalists Memorial, both operated by the Freedom Forum.

Exhibits include stones from the Warsaw Ghetto, a headless statue of Vladimir Lenin (one of many that were beheaded when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991), and a bronze cast of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birmingham jail-cell door. In addition, the park features a bronze casting of a boat used by Cuban refugees, as well as a casting of a South African ballot box from Apartheid. The park includes pieces of the Berlin Wall — the second largest display of the wall outside of Germany.[1][2] A reproduction of "Freedom," the statue that caps the dome of the United States Capitol, is also on display.

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  1. ^ The largest section of the Wall to be preserved can be found at the 1420-yard East Side Gallery in Mühlenstrasse, Germany.
  2. ^ Information found on German Embassy site:Germany Info: 15 Years After the Fall
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