Pre 89 Berlin

I am going to Berlin for a weekend at the end of the month. It will be the first time since 1984, when I used to travel regularly to East Berlin. (On business - not spying!).

Are there currently any exhibitions, museums etc giving more info about life in the GDR, the Fall of the Wall etc.., or the history of postwar Berlin.

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Loads of them! www.mauerfall09.de starts you off

There%26#39;s a huge open-air exhibition on Alexanderplatz near the Weltzeituhr. it also has an info kiosk where you can pick up flyers about other exhibitions eg in the local museums.

Three more I%26#39;ve been to: one in the Film Museum by the Sony Center which has people%26#39;s snapshots from the demonstrations in different parts of the GDR etc etc 1989 and also the TV commentaries from 9.11.89 on BBC + French, Russian and US , with the reporters commenting on how they remember it.

In Palais am Festungsgraben (next to Maxim Gorki theatre) there%26#39;s an exhib. of collages looking at the GDR in 1980%26#39;s and photos of Berlin 1989-90. That%26#39;s open Wed-Sun 13.00-19.00 if I remember right).

In the Zionskirche (Zionskirchplatz stop on M1 and 12 tram route) there is an exhibition about the peaceful revolution called %26quot;Grenzfall%26quot; which is particularly interesting as the Zionsgemeinde was the %26quot;home%26quot; of the Environmental Library%26quot; .www.zionskirche-berlin.de

Just opened in Deutsches Historisches Museum is one on art in the two Germaies in the Cold War.

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%26lt;%26lt;Just opened in Deutsches Historisches Museum is one on art in the two Germaies in the Cold War.%26gt;%26gt;

You can hear my dulcet tones if you go to that exhibition! I did the English audio guide.

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And of course there%26#39;s also the DDR Museum focusing on everyday life in the East.

http://www.ddr-museum.de/en/