Der Eintrag
Der längste Mauerabschnitt außerhalb Deutschlands – acht Segmente und ein Wachturm – befand sich hier, bis das Museum am letzten Tag des Jahres 2019 schloss, und ist heute in Maryland eingelagert.
Die ausführliche Geschichte, die Herkunft und die Quellenangaben dieses Eintrags liegen bislang nur auf Englisch vor.
The Newseum's eight segments were intact and twelve feet tall, and stood there until it closed on 31 December 2019, shown with a BT-9 guard tower — the type that stood over the death strip, and the same type preserved at the Günter Litfin memorial in Berlin. The segments had previously stood at Freedom Park in Rosslyn, Virginia.
When the museum shut, objects it owned went into an art storage facility at an undisclosed location in Maryland, pending loans elsewhere; items on loan went back to their lenders. The Freedom Forum had sold the building to Johns Hopkins University for $372.5 million. This record is kept because an atlas whose subject is objects that move should treat a closure as an event rather than a correction: the largest collection in the country did not disappear, it went into a warehouse, and where it went is one of the more useful things this project can say.
Wie kam es hierher?
Previously displayed at Freedom Park, Rosslyn, Virginia, before the Newseum acquired them. Ownership passed with the collection into storage.
Quellen
As the Newseum closes its doors, pieces of history and human remains to find a new resting place — The Washington Post ↗
Eight intact twelve-foot sections and the BT-9 tower moved to an art storage facility in Maryland after the 31 December 2019 closure.
PresseberichtQuelle abgerufen am 2026-09-17
Why the Berlin Wall Still Matters — Foreign Policy ↗
The scale of the Newseum holding and its significance as the largest outside Germany.
PresseberichtQuelle abgerufen am 2026-09-17
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