Checkpoint Charlie Museum

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The Checkpoint Charlie Museum exhibition opened just outside the Berlin Wall on 19 October 1962 in an apartment with only two and a half rooms in famous Bernauer Straße. It was originally intended to document the “best border security system in the world” (GDR armed forces general Karl-Heinz Hoffmann. The street it is on was divided lengthwise; the buildings in the east had become vacant and the windows were boarded up.

It is also called "the first museum of international nonviolent protest. Our exhibits include: The Charta 77 typewriter, the hectograph of the illegal periodical “Umweltblätter” (“Environmental Pages”), Mahatma Gandhi’s diary and sandals and from Elena Bonner the death mask of her partner Andrei Sacharov."

Quoted from Rainer Hildebrandt, Founder and Director of the Museum until his death (14.12.1914 - 09.01.2004)

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• Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie!