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 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 ...

Berlin is such an interesting city. If you’ve traveled around Germany to any extent, you’ll see a stark contrast between ...

Events also took place at the East Side Gallery, a remaining strip of the Berlin wall painted by 118 artists from 21 countries in 1990. Their works that share a common motif: overcoming repression ...

The wall section stood on the eastern side of the elaborate border strip built by communist East Germany after it sealed off West Berlin in 1961. At least 136 people died trying to scale the wall ...

BERLIN, GERMANY - NOVEMBER 04: Tourists stand at a former section of the Berlin Wall called the East Side Gallery on the first day of events celebrating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the ...

A lone person walks alongside the Berlin Wall East Side Gallery as the spread of the coronavirus disease continues, in Berlin, March 22, 2020. Reinhard Krause/Reuters, FILE.

At an April 12,1990 ceremony at the museum, attended by 1,000 well-wishers, an East German organization presented the vividly painted three-ton segment of the Berlin Wall to former President ...

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 ...