# Wall element, courtyard of the Mitte Museum, Berlin — Berlin Wall

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- Page: https://whereisthewall.com/wall/germany/berlin/berlin-mitte-museum
- Place: Mitte Museum, Pankstraße 47, 13357 Berlin, Germany
- Classification: Museum Display; can it be seen today: On display (Standing in the museum courtyard); evidence: Documented
- Position: 52.55092, 13.38003

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.

Provenance: 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](https://www.mauerspuren.de/de/13493/mauerelement-im-hof-des-mitte-museums/#mau-760): 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.
- [History — Mitte Museum](https://www.mittemuseum.de/en/infos/history): 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.