East Side Gallery

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memorial open-air art gallery section of the Berlin Wall tourist attraction

The East Side Gallery is an open-air art gallery in Berlin where artists from around the world painted murals on a preserved section of the former Berlin Wall, turning it into a monument to freedom and reunification.

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Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	memorial → open-air art gallery → section of the Berlin Wall → tourist attraction →
artistsFrom	around the world →
city	Berlin →
completionDate	1990 →
coordinates	52.505°N 13.439°E →
country	Germany →
followsFormerBorderBetween	East Berlin → West Berlin →
hasArtist	Birgit Kinder → Dmitri Vrubel → Thierry Noir →
hasHeritageDesignation	protected monument →
hasWork	Fraternal Kiss mural → Test the Best mural → Trabant breaking through the Wall mural →
heritageDesignationStart	1991 →
inaugurated	1990 →
languageOfInscriptions	English →
languageOfMostInscriptions	German →
length	about 0.8 miles → about 1.3 kilometres →
locatedAlong	River Spree →
locatedIn	Berlin → Germany →
locatedInDistrict	Friedrichshain →
locatedOn	Mühlenstrasse →
maintainedBy	Stiftung Berliner Mauer →
material	concrete →
near	Oberbaum Bridge → Ostbahnhof railway station →
numberOfArtists	over 100 →
numberOfMurals	over 100 →
openedToPublicAsGallery	1990 →
partOf	Berlin Wall →
significance	monument to German reunification → monument to freedom → symbol of the end of the Cold War →
subjectOf	public debates about preservation and development →
theme	freedom → overcoming division → peace → reunification →
underwentRestoration	2009 → 2010 →
visitorAttractionStatus	major tourist attraction in Berlin →

Referenced by (6)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Berlin Wall → Berlin Wall ("Bernauer Strasse memorial") →	remnantLocation
Invalidenfriedhof ("Berlin Wall memorial sites") →	category
Mitte ("Berlin Wall Memorial at Bernauer Straße") →	contains
Berlin →	hasLandmark
East Side Gallery ("Trabant breaking through the Wall mural") →	hasWork