Slap-bang between the prominent cultural highlights at Checkpoint Charlie and the Museumsinsel, the Wallstraße and its surrounding area benefit from an exciting location, where a unique urban history is an arena for emerging contemporary artists.

Since its inauguration on Wallstraße in September 2007, this gallery has staged many different exhibitions of interdisciplinary works by both international and Berlin artists focusing on social and urban structures.

Wallstraße 15

10179 Berlin

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The Märkisches Museum was built in 1908 and provides an impressive document of Berlin’s urban history, from its very beginnings to the present day.

Am Köllnischen Park 5

10179 Berlin

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5 hectares along the Neue Grünstraße where the Berlin wall once stood now offer, among other things, a fantastic location for the 5th Berlin Biennial and its focus on location-based contemporary art.

Alte Jakobstraße/ Kommandantenstraße

10969 Berlin

The Society for the Preservation and Promotion of Historical Inland Water Navigation (Verein zur Erhaltung und Förderung der historischen Binnenschifffahrt) presents an exhibition on the boat “Renate-Angelika”, showing life as it used to be on the Spree and the Havel.

Märkisches Ufer 6

10179 Berlin

The Senate Department for Urban Development shows in three models what Berlin might look like in the future and how GDR planners saw the future of the city just before the wall fell.

Am Köllnischen Park 3

10179 Berlin-Mitte

A place where both young and old can experience how Berlin’s schoolchildren studied and played 100 years ago. Exhibits include for example a historical classroom.

Wallstraße 32

10179 Berlin

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Berlin’s newest gallery district has sprung up around the former inner-city border crossing at Checkpoint Charlie and Lindenstraße, just a short walk from Wallstraße.

Lindenstraße, Zimmerstraße, Schützenstraße

10117 Berlin

Just a few minutes’ walk from the Wallstraße lies the Nikolaiviertel, the cradle of the city with its historical buildings, museums and little boutiques dotted around the Nikolaikirche.

Nikolaikirchplatz

10178 Berlin

The Schlossplatz is just five minutes from Wallstraße - with the planned Humboldt Forum, the White Cube Berlin and the demolition of the Palace of the Republic, it is a living monument to an ever-changing city.

Schlossplatz

10178 Berlin

Not far from the Schlossplatz is the Museumsinsel: a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage site since 1999, it offers a unique mix of museums including the Alte Nationalgalerie, Pergamon Museum, Altes Museum, Neues Museum and Bode Museum.

Am Kupfergraben

10117 Berlin