The record
The first Mexican home of fragment 266, bought by the museum's director in 1990 and shown for about ten years. It is now at the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia.
Luis Alonso Sordo Noriega, who directed the Museo de Historia Moderna in Mexico City, bought a section of the Wall in June 1990, catalogued as fragment 266, and had it shipped from Hamburg to Mexico. Milenio says it landed at Veracruz on 31 July 1990. The museum showed it for about a decade, as a reminder of the reunification of two countries and of the political changes in the nations that had been behind the Iron Curtain.
El Universal, reporting in May 2017, places the museum in the old house at Tepic 41 in the Colonia Roma and says it had closed some ten years earlier; the fragment belonged to Sordo, and was offered at the Casa Morton auction on 27 May 2017 at a starting price of 600,000 pesos. The Museo Memoria y Tolerancia bought it and inaugurated it in April 2018 (Milenio). It stands at that museum's entrance, which has its own page in this catalogue.
The two papers differ on the details: June 25 or 26 for the purchase, and 2.7 or 3 tonnes for the weight, so neither figure is used here.
This record has no pin: the listing came without coordinates, and no checked coordinate for the house at Tepic 41 was found.
How did it get here?
Bought in June 1990 by the museum's director, Luis Alonso Sordo Noriega; sold at auction in May 2017 and bought by the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #254.
Muro Berlín. Cómo llegó un fragmento a México, en Memoria y Tolerancia — Milenio, 13 August 2020 ↗
Luis Alonso Sordo Noriega, director of the Museo de Historia Moderna, acquired fragment 266 in June 1990 and shipped it from Hamburg to Veracruz, where it arrived on 31 July 1990; the museum showed it for a decade; the owner auctioned it through Casa Morton in May 2017 and the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia bought it and inaugurated it in April 2018.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Un pedazo del Muro de Berlín, a subasta en México — El Universal, 22 May 2017 ↗
The fragment, formerly shown at the Museo de Historia y Arte Moderno in Mexico City's Colonia Roma, which had closed ten years earlier, belonged to Luis Alonso Sordo Noriega and was offered at the Morton auction house on 27 May 2017 at 600,000 pesos; the museum was in the old house at Tepic 41, Colonia Roma.
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 254
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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