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An original graffiti-covered panel in the atrium of Georgetown's Qatar campus, one of two sections Germany gave Qatar for the 2017 year of culture.
An original panel of the Berlin Wall stands in the atrium of Georgetown University in Qatar, in the Education City campus on the western edge of Doha. It was unveiled on 11 December 2018 by Qatar Foundation, Qatar Museums and the university's dean: just over a metre wide and more than three and a half metres high, steel-reinforced concrete sprayed with graffiti.
The Federal Foundation's entry gives the panel a history. It is one of fifteen segments painted in 2007 by pupils of the Carl-Zeiss-Oberschule in Berlin-Lichtenrade under the direction of Thierry Noir, in the Kreuzberg yard of the builders' merchant Dämmisol, which had bought the elements and paid for the school project. Six of the pupils' segments were sold to the company Veloform when Dämmisol gave up the site in 2008; Qatar Foundation acquired this one, painted with a coloured figure, and shows it on loan from the Qatar Museums Authority. Among those who spoke at the unveiling was the university's deputy dean, Kai-Henrik Barth, who with his wife described growing up on opposite sides of the Wall.
Qatar Museums tells it more simply: one of two sections the German embassy gave to Qatar Museums as part of the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture 2017, the other standing in the exhibition hall of the Qatar National Convention Centre nearby. Both readings are kept.
Two inventory listings describe this panel and are carried on this page. The Federal Foundation publishes one text, covering both Education City sites, on each of its two Doha entries; the first entry is pinned within fifty metres of this atrium and the second near the convention centre, and the two listings are assigned on that basis. The Berlin Wall Archive's Doha listing follows the Wall Net's entry of the same title, which places its one segment in this atrium.
The local press report of the unveiling gives the panel as two metres thick, which cannot be right for a wall element and is left out here.
How did it get here?
By the Federal Foundation's account, painted in 2007 by pupils of the Carl-Zeiss-Oberschule under Thierry Noir at the Dämmisol yard in Berlin-Kreuzberg, sold to Veloform in 2008 and acquired by Qatar Foundation, on loan from the Qatar Museums Authority; by Qatar Museums' account, given by the German embassy for the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture 2017. Unveiled at Georgetown University in Qatar on 11 December 2018.
Sources
Listed by the Federal Foundation as #254 and by the Berlin Wall Archive as #99.
Sections of the Berlin Wall — Qatar Museums, public art ↗
Two sections of the Berlin Wall in Qatar, one in the atrium of Georgetown University in Qatar described as an original part of the wall, both gifted by the German embassy as part of the Qatar–Germany Year of Culture 2017.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Qatar Museums brings a piece of Berlin Wall to GU-Q — The Peninsula, 11 December 2018 ↗
The panel unveiled in the GU-Q atrium on 11 December 2018 by Machaille Al Naimi of Qatar Foundation, Abdulrahman Al Ishaq of Qatar Museums and Dean Ahmad Dallal; just over a metre wide and over 3.5 metres high, steel-reinforced concrete with spray-painted graffiti.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, site entry (Doha) ↗
The unveiling of a painted segment in the atrium of Georgetown University in Qatar on 11 December 2018 and the speakers, including Kai-Henrik Barth; the 2007 Carl-Zeiss-Oberschule project with Thierry Noir at the Dämmisol yard and the fifteen segments; the sale of six to Veloform in 2008; Qatar Foundation's acquisition of this piece, on loan from the Qatar Museums Authority. The entry's map pin lies within fifty metres of the atrium.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide, second Doha site entry ↗
The Foundation's second Doha entry carries the same text as the first, covering both Education City sites; its map pin lies near the Qatar National Convention Centre, so that listing is carried on the convention centre's page rather than here.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17
Doha, Qatar — The Wall Net ↗
The entry whose title the Berlin Wall Archive's Doha listing follows: one segment, in the atrium of Georgetown University in Qatar, unveiled in December 2018.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Federal Foundation — Berlin Wall worldwide ↗
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
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 99
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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