Checkpoint Charlie Museum

A stark contrast to the Warsaw Uprising Museum mentioned in my previous post, is the Checkpoint Charlie Museum in Berlin.

It opened just outside the Berlin wall in 1962 in an apartment with only 2 and a half rooms. But since it has been added to bit by bit to create a maze-like documentation of the wall as time went by. Similarly to the Warsaw Uprising Museum, it has a very personal feel but it is achieved more naturally (at the expense of being less organised and with less aesthetic value), housing stories of some of the people who were killed at the time of the wall, and people who escaped.