Collections and artists.
The country and city indexes follow geography. These follow a question: which pieces were painted by a named artist, which came from the same stretch of Wall, which you can visit. Each collection lists its sites on a map and names its sources.
Collections
Presidential libraries ↗
7 sitesSeven presidential libraries hold a piece of the Wall, and each reads it through its own president's part: Helsinki, détente, Berlin in 1963, or 1989 itself.
Military bases and museums ↗
28 sitesSegments kept by the forces that stood on the other side of the Wall: army posts, air bases, NATO commands and the museums of war on both sides of the Atlantic.
Embassies and institutions ↗
13 sitesSegments on diplomatic ground: German embassies, foreign ministries, the United Nations, the European Parliament, NATO and the European Court of Human Rights.
Schools and universities ↗
30 sitesCampuses and schoolyards from Massachusetts to Singapore, where the object is there to be explained to people who were born after it fell.
Churches and places of worship ↗
10 sitesSanctuaries, temples and parish churches where the Wall is read devotionally: as prophecy fulfilled, as scripture, or as a prayer for another divided country.
Lost and moved ↗
23 sitesSegments that have left the place they were first recorded: into storage, into another building, across a city, or out of sight when their venue closed.
The Monaco auction ↗
5 sitesWhere lots from the 1990 sale that opened the trade in the Wall ended up: a Swiss suburb, a cognac estate, a cement works, a Silesian meadow and the Vatican.
Artists
Thierry Noir ↗
21 sitesSegments carrying work by Thierry Noir, who painted the west face of the Wall from 1984 and has gone on painting pieces of it, for whoever asked, since it fell.
Kiddy Citny ↗
12 sitesSegments carrying Kiddy Citny's crowned hearts and king's heads, painted on Waldemarstraße in 1984 and 1985 and now scattered across three continents.
Jürgen Große (Indiano) ↗
4 sitesFour sites holding the Global Messages that Jürgen Große, signing himself Indiano, painted on the Wall in 1990 as the demolition crews worked along it.
Ben Wagin ↗
2 sitesTwo memorials by the Berlin artist Ben Wagin: the Parliament of Trees on the former border strip, and the only wall element in public space in Bonn.
Edwina Sandys ↗
2 sitesBreakthrough at Fulton and BreakFree at Hyde Park: one sculpture cut from eight segments, and a second made from the figures cut out of it.
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