East Side Gallery

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The East Side Gallery is an open-air art gallery in Berlin where artists from around the world painted murals on a preserved section of the former Berlin Wall, turning it into a monument to freedom and reunification.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf memorial
open-air art gallery
section of the Berlin Wall
tourist attraction
artistsFrom around the world
city Berlin
completionDate 1990
coordinates 52.505°N 13.439°E
country Germany
followsFormerBorderBetween East Berlin
West Berlin
hasArtist Birgit Kinder
Dmitri Vrubel
Thierry Noir
hasHeritageDesignation protected monument
hasWork Fraternal Kiss mural
Test the Best mural
Trabant breaking through the Wall mural
linked to: East Side Gallery
heritageDesignationStart 1991
inaugurated 1990
languageOfInscriptions English
languageOfMostInscriptions German
length about 0.8 miles
about 1.3 kilometres
locatedAlong River Spree
locatedIn Berlin
Germany
locatedInDistrict Friedrichshain
locatedOn Mühlenstrasse
maintainedBy Stiftung Berliner Mauer
material concrete
near Oberbaum Bridge
Ostbahnhof railway station
linked to: Berlin Ostbahnhof
numberOfArtists over 100
numberOfMurals over 100
openedToPublicAsGallery 1990
partOf Berlin Wall
significance monument to German reunification
monument to freedom
symbol of the end of the Cold War
subjectOf public debates about preservation and development
theme freedom
overcoming division
peace
reunification
underwentRestoration 2009
2010
visitorAttractionStatus major tourist attraction in Berlin

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Berlin Wall remnantLocation East Side Gallery
Berlin Wall remnantLocation Bernauer Strasse memorial
linked to: East Side Gallery
Berlin hasLandmark East Side Gallery
Mitte contains Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Straße
linked to: East Side Gallery
East Side Gallery hasWork Trabant breaking through the Wall mural
linked to: East Side Gallery
Invalidenfriedhof category Berlin Wall memorial sites
subject linked to: Invalidenfriedhof, Berlin
linked to: East Side Gallery
Berlin Ostbahnhof locatedNear East Side Gallery
Kreuzberg hasLandmark East Side Gallery vicinity
linked to: East Side Gallery
Mühlenstrasse runsAlong East Side Gallery
Mühlenstrasse hasSection East Side Gallery frontage
linked to: East Side Gallery
Fraternal Kiss mural paintedOn Berlin Wall remnant
linked to: East Side Gallery
Fraternal Kiss mural locatedAt East Side Gallery
Fraternal Kiss mural partOf East Side Gallery open-air gallery
linked to: East Side Gallery
Test the Best mural locatedIn East Side Gallery
Test the Best mural partOf East Side Gallery open-air gallery
linked to: East Side Gallery
Dmitri Vrubel notableWork Berlin Wall Brezhnev–Honecker kiss mural
linked to: East Side Gallery
Dmitri Vrubel notableWorkLocation East Side Gallery, Berlin
linked to: East Side Gallery
Dmitri Vrubel hasWorkIn East Side Gallery
Stiftung Berliner Mauer manages East Side Gallery
Friedrichshain hasLandmark East Side Gallery
Friedrichshain contains section of the Berlin Wall known as East Side Gallery
linked to: East Side Gallery
Birgit Kinder notableWork Trabant breaking through the Berlin Wall mural
linked to: East Side Gallery
Birgit Kinder workLocation East Side Gallery
Birgit Kinder partOf East Side Gallery artists
linked to: East Side Gallery
Oberbaum Bridge near East Side Gallery
River Spree passesLandmark East Side Gallery
Mercedes-Benz Arena Berlin locatedNear East Side Gallery
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg containsLandmark East Side Gallery