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3 unusual facts about Allied Museum


Allied Museum

It documents the political history and the military commitments and roles of the Western Allies (US, France and Britain) in Germany – particularly Berlin – between 1945 and 1994 and their contribution to liberty in Berlin.

Near the Allied Museum, in Clayallee, a sculpture by Veryl Goodnight remembers the joyous event when the Berlin wall came down.

Some of the largest objects in the permanent collection are presented in the open-air exhibition space and include a British Handley Page Hastings transport plane, a railway carriage from a French military train, the guard house from the famous border crossing point Checkpoint Charlie and a GDR watchtower.



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