The record
Three sections of the Wall in the U.S. Army Artillery Museum, which opened on the post in 2009; its director listed them in 2011 as a recent addition to the gallery.
Fort Sill had one museum from 1934, the Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum, spread through 27 historic buildings into which no large gun could be brought. Early in 2009 the artillery's own museum was split off from it, and on 2 June 2009 the U.S. Army Artillery Museum opened in a new 38,000-square-foot building just inside the Key Gate, at the post's Interstate 44 entrance, at the corner of Randolph and Corral roads. The Army's report of the opening calls it the Field Artillery Museum; its director, Gordon A. Blaker, explained to the American Society of Arms Collectors in 2011 that it uses the shorter name because it covers siege, heavy and coastal artillery too. Blaker's account walks through the Central Gallery, with its diorama of a Mexican War flying battery and exhibits for the artillery's four components, and ends with “a recent addition to the gallery”: what he calls the ultimate artefact of the Cold War era, three sections of the Berlin Wall.
The Army's own report of June 2009 does not mention them, which fits a recent addition two years later; nothing read gives the year they arrived. The Wall Net, whose entry the Berlin Wall Archive's listing follows, quotes the museum in 2017: three full-size panels, presented to Fort Sill by the German government in recognition of the artillery's part in the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the end of the Cold War, standing in the foyer and said to be the only full-size panels of the Wall in Oklahoma. It takes them for sections of the Hinterlandmauer, the inner wall.
How did it get here?
Presented to Fort Sill by the German government, according to the museum as quoted by The Wall Net; the year is not given. In the museum's gallery by 2011.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #128.
The U.S. Army Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, Oklahoma — American Society of Arms Collectors Bulletin 103 ↗
Gordon A. Blaker, Bulletin 103 (2011), pp. 19–23: the museum opened on 2 June 2009 in a new 38,000-square-foot building just inside the Key Gate at the Interstate 44 entrance to Fort Sill, split off early in 2009 from the Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum, founded in 1934, whose 27 historic buildings could not take large artillery; it is called the Artillery Museum because it interprets siege, heavy and coastal artillery as well; the Central Gallery shows the four components of the artillery, and 'a recent addition to the gallery is the ultimate artifact of the Cold War era — three sections of the Berlin Wall'.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
New Field Artillery museum opens — U.S. Army ↗
James Brabenec, Fort Sill Cannoneer, 11 June 2009: the Field Artillery Museum opened at the intersection of Randolph and Corral roads on Fort Sill, with Central, South and North galleries; the report does not mention the Berlin Wall.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Fort Sill, OK — The Wall Net ↗
Entry of 8 March 2017: the Field Artillery Museum has three full-size panels of the Berlin Wall, presented to Fort Sill by the German government in recognition of the artillery's contributions to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact and the end of the Cold War, which the museum says are the only full-size panels of the Wall in Oklahoma, shown in the foyer; the entry takes them for sections of the Hinterlandmauer.
General referenceSource 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 128
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