Checkpoint Charlie was the best-known crossing between the two halves of the German capital during the Cold War, and started to attract visitors following the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

Last month, the House at Checkpoint Charlie Museum announced it would rebuild the concrete barrier using 120 slabs of the original wall collected from various sites by the museum's late founder ...

Checkpoint Charlie, the Berlin Wall crossing place that came to symbolise the Cold War has degenerated into a seedy tourist trap which uses actors posing as border guards in a failed attempt to recrea ...

The Checkpoint Charlie museum doesn’t convey the drama and personalities of the Cold War era. It doesn’t convey the sense of urgency or inspire empowerment.

The Checkpoint Charlie museum on Friedrichstrasse tries to capture the trauma of that period, as well as celebrating the ingenuity of some of the escapees who came across in homemade aircraft ...

BERLIN (dpa) – A row has broken out in Berlin over who actually owns the hundreds of Cold War artefacts housed in the famous “House at Checkpoint Charlie” museum, which every year attracts ...

Rainer Hildebrandt, director of the nearby Checkpoint Charlie Museum, which documents the history of the wall, said he tried to save the tower in talks with a real estate developer who wants to ...

"It's a disgrace," said Alexandra Hildebrandt of the House at Checkpoint Charlie museum, which documents how almost 1,000 East Germans died trying to reach the West during the Cold War, including ...

The crosses were erected by Alexandra Hildebrandt, boss of the famous Checkpoint Charlie Museum, who felt that they should stand at the east-west city demarcation line at the former border.

The adjacent Checkpoint Charlie museum — Berlin’s second busiest with 700,000 visitors last year — is not in any jeopardy.

Research by Germany's Checkpoint Charlie museum, which is still identifying "border-related" deaths, found that 483 people died or were killed at the heavily-guarded wall, which separated the ...