Asisi Panorama - Die Mauer (The Wall): Skip The Line

The world has fortunately moved on, but the ideologies that divided the world for most of the 20th century found their physical form in Berlin.

Asisi Panorama: Die Mauer (The Wall) lets you step back in time to 1980s Berlin, and experience the feeling of living in the shadow of the Berlin Wall. Skip the line that can gather around this popular attraction and walk up above the wall. Watch a day unfold in this surreal city, bisected by a cement barrier.

Walk into the custom-built rotunda on the site of the infamous Checkpoint Charlie, and enter Asisi Panorama: Die Mauer (THE WALL). This exhibition, the work of artist Yadegar Asisi, puts you right into the center of 1980s Berlin.

At this location, you'll be 5 meters behind the western side of the infamous Berlin Wall, looking into East Berlin from a height of 4 meters. Take a peek into life in the East, just a stone's throw from where you stand. Thanks to the use of sophisticated lighting, an entire day's routine is recreated. As the sun sets, the darkness of night is carefully monitored by the watchful eyes in the control towers.

When the wall came down in November 1989, it was accompanied by an outpouring of euphoria. A room here is dedicated to that event, so you too can experience the joy - not just of a world city being made whole again - but of the passing of the Cold War era.