Berlin Trip, March 2013 - The Berlin Wall, Tacheles, Television Tower
POSTED ON Sunday, 10 March 2013 AT 12:47 \\
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the berlin wall
tacheles
Kunsthaus Tacheles (Art House Tacheles) was an old art center with an extensive and dark history even prior to that. Prior to it's current state, the building used to contain studios, workshops, a nightclub and even a cinema. The galleries and artwork have all but vanished since then, only the graffiti murals that plaster the exterior walls remain. A small area of the garden is still open to the public, where a few artists are fighting against being evicted from the site and they continue to sell their works: mainly jewellery and metal sculptures.
television tower
Labels: art, berlin, berlin wall, germany, kunsthaus tacheles, photography, tacheles, television tower
Berlin Trip, March 2013 - Street Art, Sight Seeing, Stasimuseum
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berlin's street art scene
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more sights
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stasimuseum
The Stasimuseum is a museum extending several floors of a building that is the former headquarters of the Stasi. It acts as a sort of memorial, with reconstructed rooms and a vast amount of furnishings and artifacts from the Stasi (the Ministry of State Security, also known as the secret police).
German history is something I know little about so the Stasimuseum was something that I didn't understand too well, however I found it to be a really good spot to photograph and found the pieces of the exhibition to be very interesting in their historic content. I particularly liked the recreation and maintainance of the old rooms as I find it fascinating to picture the real history that happened there.
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Labels: anne frank, berlin, berlin war memorial, germany, graffiti, photography, stasimuseum, street art
