Meanwhile, at the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, the current curator, Alexandra Hildebrandt, has wasted no time carrying forward her husband’s struggle beyond Berlin: On November 15, the museum will ...

Checkpoint Charlie was the most popular border crossing between East Berlin and West Berlin during the Cold War. It has also had a starring role in major films, including the James Bond franchise.

A museum that features fake passports, a motorized glider, counterfeit Soviet Army uniforms, automobiles reinforced with sheet metal and concrete, an underwater bicycle motor, a homemade hot-air ba… ...

Wrecking crews have demolished a watchtower at the former Checkpoint Charlie crossing, one of the last reminders of the Berlin Wall to fall victim to developers who have remade Berlin since German ...

Only the Checkpoint Charlie Museum, however, regularly brings tears to the eyes of visitors.For nearly three decades, Checkpoint Charlie was the […] Skip to content. All Sections.

The proposed museum at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin would deepen our understanding and inform new generations—generations that might otherwise skip the history and go straight for the sausages.

The privately run museum at Checkpoint Charlie is one of the city's main tourist draws. It documents the history of the division of Berlin and the tensions between East and West here at ground ...

Checkpoint Charlie, ground zero in the Cold War split between East and West, is a top attraction for Berlin tourists. It is now threatened with development that could overshadow the site.

BERLIN—Here at Checkpoint Charlie, where Soviet and American tanks once aimed at each other separated by 30 yards, Cold War tensions are still running high. An international group of scholars ...

The adjacent Checkpoint Charlie museum – established in 1963 on the West German side of the border and Berlin’s second-busiest with 700,000 visitors last year – is not in jeopardy.

Checkpoint Charlie, the former border checkpoint between East and West Berlin, is set to get a major makeover after city authorities approve a redevelopment plan after years of debate.