List of Berlin Wall portions
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Many portions of the Berlin Wall have been given to institutions since its fall on November 9, 1989.
[edit] EU Parliament, Belgium
A portion of the wall is on display outside the EU Parliament in Brussels, Belgium.
[edit] European Court of Human Rights, France
A portion of the wall is on display outside the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France.
[edit] World Peace Pavilion, Nova Scotia, Canada
A piece of the Berlin Wall is on display at the World Peace Pavilion in the Halifax Regional Municipality on the Dartmouth waterfront. It is encased in a display case, along with other items of importance from around the world. [1]
[edit] Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada
Six large pieces of the Berlin Wall are in the possession of the Town of Truro. There are plans to move them to the nearby Diefenbunker museum in Debert in the near future.
[edit] Centre de Commerce mondial de Montréal, Québec, Canada
A portion of the Berlin Wall has been given by the city of Berlin to the city of Montréal in 1992 for its 350th birthday. The portion comes from a location near Brandenburg Gate and is now displayed in the Centre de Commerce Mondial.
[edit] Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, California, USA
A portion of the Berlin Wall is also on display in Ronald Reagan Presidential Library located in Simi Valley, California.
[edit] Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Birthplace, Yorba Linda, California, USA
A portion of the Berlin Wall is located inside the museum area of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California just outside of Los Angeles. The Nixon Library's portion of the wall is similar in size to the portion of the wall displayed at the Reagan Library.
[edit] John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, Massachusetts, USA
A section of the Wall was donated in 1989 by the German government and brought to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum located in Boston, Massachusetts with the help of Jean Kennedy Smith, the President’s sister.
[edit] Westminster College, Missouri, USA
A small portion of the Wall can be seen at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Westminster College is known for drawing important world leaders, from Winston Churchill (he gave his famous Iron Curtain speech at Westminster College), Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Margaret Thatcher, among others. The piece of the Wall became part of the Winston Churchill Memorial Library.[1]
One year after the fall of the Berlin Wall, artist Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill, proposed the idea of placing a piece of the Wall at the Westminster College campus. With the support of Westminster College, Sandys and her husband, Richard Kaplan, met with officials in East Berlin in February 1990. Upon arrival in Berlin, the couple realized their plans to secure large portions of the wall would be costly, as 4-foot-wide sections were selling at a cost of $60,000 to $200,000. This obstacle, however, was solved when officials, impressed by the idea of a Berlin Wall monument being erected near the site of Churchill's 1946 "Iron Curtain" speech, allowed Sandys to choose eight sections as a gift to the College. Sandys chose her sections from an area near the Brandenburg Gate, frequented by artists, because of the dramatic color of the graffiti. The repeated use of the word "unwahr," within the sections, which in German means "untrue", also appealed to her.
On November 9, 1990, after a nine-month effort, the "Breakthrough" sculpture stood appropriately in the foreground of the College's Winston Churchill Memorial and Library. Joined by former President Ronald Reagan, Senator John Ashcroft and German Minister Plenipotentiary Fritjof von Nordenskjoeld, Sandys introduced her sculpture to the assembled crowd. Forty-four years after her grandfather warned of an "iron curtain," the wide open doors of "Breakthrough" provided a concrete image of the newly realized freedom in Eastern Europe.
[edit] Main Street Station casino/hotel, Nevada, USA
A section of the Berlin Wall is actually located in the Main Street Station casino/hotel men's bathroom in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.
[edit] James Baker Institute, Texas, USA
A portion of the wall is on display outside the James Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Baker was US Secretary of State during the reunification of Germany.
[edit] Hilton Anatole Hotel, Texas, USA
Two portions of the wall are on display in the sculpture garden of the Hilton Anatole hotel in Dallas, Texas. The two sections are each 12 feet tall.
[edit] Mountain View, California, USA
Two sections of the wall are displayed in the rear parking lot of an office building at 2685 Marine Way, Mountain View, California. A plaque memorializes the fall of the wall as "a tribute to American resolve."
[edit] Seoul, South Korea
Three sections of the wall are displayed along the recently restored Cheonggyecheon (청계천) stream in central Seoul and were presented in conjunction with the restoration project. The sections are adjacent to the Samilgyo (삼일교) bridge across the stream.
