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An element brought straight from the planned crossing at Bernauer Straße in May 1990 to the courtyard of the Wedding local history museum.
A wall element stands in the courtyard of the Mitte Museum on Pankstraße in Gesundbrunnen. It was set up there on 8 May 1990 as a gift to what was then the Heimatmuseum Wedding, and it came straight from the Wall: from the corner of Brunnenstraße and Bernauer Straße, where a new border crossing was being opened, to the museum under two kilometres to the north-west.
The museum itself was barely a year old. It had opened in 1989 in a parish school built in 1865–66, one of the oldest surviving school buildings in Berlin, and it has been the Mitte Museum since 2004. So a local history museum founded in the last year of the division took a piece of it, within six months of the border opening, from a street in its own district.
The Berlin Wall Foundation lists it in its directory of surviving traces as MAU-760. Nothing read here names the donor.
How did it get here?
Taken from the site of the planned crossing at Brunnenstraße and Bernauer Straße and set up on 8 May 1990 as a gift to the Heimatmuseum Wedding, now the Mitte Museum.
Sources
MAU-760 Mauerelement im Hof des Mitte Museums — MAUERSPUREN, Stiftung Berliner Mauer ↗
A wall element set up on 8 May 1990 as a gift to the Heimatmuseum Wedding in the courtyard of today's Mitte Museum at Pankstraße 47, brought directly from the planned border crossing at Brunnenstraße and Bernauer Straße; catalogued as MAU-760.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
History — Mitte Museum ↗
Opened in 1989 at Pankstraße 47 as the Heimatmuseum Wedding, in a parish school built in 1865–66 and restored as a listed building; the Mitte Museum since 2004.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
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