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A piece inside an aviation museum best known for holding the Spruce Goose.
A piece inside the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, renamed the North American Aerospace Museum in 2026, whose main hall holds Howard Hughes's Spruce Goose. Like the Cosmosphere in Kansas and the Technik Museum Speyer, it is a collection about flight that keeps a piece of a land border — and in this case the aviation connection is real rather than incidental, because the first American response to the closing of Berlin was an airlift.
The Herald, describing the museum in June 2012, counted a piece of the Berlin Wall among the highlights of its space area, with an SR-71 Blackbird and a replica command module, and a photograph on Commons shows it there in July 2013. The museum, across Highway 18 from McMinnville's airport, took its new name in August 2026. Its website does not mention the piece, so whether it is still on show is not confirmed.
How did it get here?
Provenance has not been established. Movement history, ownership, and installation dates will be added only when supported by sources.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #250.
List of Berlin Wall segments — Wikipedia ↗
A piece of the Berlin Wall inside the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
File:Berlin Wall Souvenir.jpg — Wikimedia Commons ↗
Photograph by Visitor7, 19 July 2013: a piece of the Berlin Wall at the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, with the camera's position.
PhotographSource accessed 2026-09-17
Oregon air museum puts tale behind every aircraft — The Herald, Everett ↗
15 June 2012: the highlights of the museum's space area include a piece of the Berlin Wall, an SR-71 Blackbird and a replica space command module.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Spruce Goose home rebrands as North American Aerospace Museum — FLYING Magazine ↗
13 August 2026: the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville has a new name, the North American Aerospace Museum.
Press reportSource accessed 2026-09-17
Visit — North American Aerospace Museum ↗
The museum's own page: 500 Northeast Captain Michael King Smith Way, McMinnville, 3.5 miles south-east of the town on Highway 18, across from the municipal airport. It does not mention the Wall piece.
Institutional sourceSource 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 250
No photograph of this one has been published. If you have taken one, or know when it arrived or who gave it, we would like to hear. Contribute to this record