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Painted with a design by the Dominican artist Martín López, it was moved in 2022 from the seafront to the garden of a national museum.
A whole segment of the Wall reached Santo Domingo in 2019 as a gift from Germany. Diario Libre says it was donated by the German ambassador at the time, Volker Pellet, and reached Santo Domingo after two months at sea. A competition for a design to cover it was won by the Dominican artist Martín López with "Tótem: por los derechos humanos, la democracia y la libertad", which draws on resistance figures including Fray Antonio de Montesinos and the Mirabal sisters; the German company Wallprint applied it with a concrete printer.
It was inaugurated in May 2021 at the monument to Montesinos on the Malecón. The salt air damaged it, and in February 2022 the Culture Ministry and the municipality moved it to the front garden of the Museo Nacional de Historia y Geografía in the Plaza de la Cultura (Listín Diario). On 9 November 2024, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the fall, it was shown again after restoration by conservators of CENACOD, working with the German embassy and the Culture Ministry (Diario Libre).
Neither paper says where in Berlin the segment stood.
How did it get here?
Given to the Dominican Republic by the German embassy in 2019; the surface printed with López's design.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #370.
Muro de Berlín: el fragmento que donó Alemania a RD fue trasladado a la Plaza de la Cultura — Listín Diario, 19 October 2022 ↗
The fragment given by Germany, inaugurated in May 2021 at the Fray Antonio de Montesinos monument, was damaged by salt and moved in February 2022 to the front garden of the Museo Nacional de Historia y Geografía in the Plaza de la Cultura; Martín José López Reyes made the work "Tótem" on it.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Celebran 35 aniversario caída Muro de Berlín con un fragmento renovado en la Plaza de la Cultura — Diario Libre, 9 November 2024 ↗
The fragment was donated in 2019 by the then ambassador Volker Pellet after a two-month sea journey; Martín López won the design competition; Wallprint applied his design; and on 9 November 2024 it was shown restored by CENACOD conservators with the German embassy and the Culture Ministry.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlin Wall Archive ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 370
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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