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Tempelhof Central Airport: The American Story
Public guided tour of the temporary exhibition
Come and discover the American epoch of Berlin’s former main airport in the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport: The American Story.” With its 1,230-meter-long curved and canopied structure, the Nazi-era airport building was not just one of the largest building complexes in the world, but also a historic site that mirrored the events of the twentieth century. .
The exhibition extends from the American takeover of the airport in July 1945 from the Soviet troops who had captured the terrain to the handover to Berlin’s airport authority (Berliner Flughafengesellschaft) in 1993, underlining Tempelhof Airport’s significance as a memorial site for the Cold War. It stands for a fascinating chapter in Berlin and international history: The many original exhibits bring to life the four-power air-traffic administration that was so vital for West Berlin, the airlift and refugee transports, spy flights and electronic reconnaissance, spectacular passenger plane hijackings and escapes as well as the colorful world of the Allied airlines.
The findings of recent historical excavations by archeologists on the former airport grounds will be on display for the first time in the exhibition. They represent the different “time strata” existing under the surface of the airport terrain.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Nicholson Memorial Library
The tour is free of charge.
Of a chocolate pilot and spies
Free, public family tour
Our family tour gives children, parents, and grandparents the opportunity to discover the permanent exhibition. We show you exceptional objects from a chocolate parachute of the Berlin Airlift era to the spy tunnel. The stories surrounding these exhibits are unusual and fascinating.
The focal point of the tour is the history of the Berlin Airlift. Together with your children you can marvel at the exterior and interior of the original British Airlift plane, also known as the “Candy Bomber.” A segment of the Berlin Wall helps to make the division of the city real for children. The tour on the trail of the Western powers ends with the withdrawal of the Allied forces in 1994.
We make every effort to connect the exhibition with the children’s own life experience, and questions are always encouraged. Parents and children have the opportunity to engage in discussion with our docents.
The tour is suitable for children 8 years and older and will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Foyer of the Outpost Theater
No reservation needed. The tour is free of charge.
Tempelhof Central Airport: The American Story
Public guided tour of the temporary exhibition
Come and discover the American epoch of Berlin’s former main airport in the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport: The American Story.” With its 1,230-meter-long curved and canopied structure, the Nazi-era airport building was not just one of the largest building complexes in the world, but also a historic site that mirrored the events of the twentieth century. .
The exhibition extends from the American takeover of the airport in July 1945 from the Soviet troops who had captured the terrain to the handover to Berlin’s airport authority (Berliner Flughafengesellschaft) in 1993, underlining Tempelhof Airport’s significance as a memorial site for the Cold War. It stands for a fascinating chapter in Berlin and international history: The many original exhibits bring to life the four-power air-traffic administration that was so vital for West Berlin, the airlift and refugee transports, spy flights and electronic reconnaissance, spectacular passenger plane hijackings and escapes as well as the colorful world of the Allied airlines.
The findings of recent historical excavations by archeologists on the former airport grounds will be on display for the first time in the exhibition. They represent the different “time strata” existing under the surface of the airport terrain.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Nicholson Memorial Library
The tour is free of charge.
How Enemies Became Friends
Overview tour of the permanent exhibition
Get to know the most interesting exhibits from 50 years of Allied presence in Berlin. The first part of the exhibition in the former Outpost Theater is dedicated to the period from 1945 to 1950. Numerous documents, photos and objects tell the checkered history of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany up to the early occupation period in Berlin.
The Cold War reached an initial highpoint with the Soviet blockade of Berlin and the Western powers’ Airlift in 1948/49. A tour of the British Hastings TG 503 transport plane on the grounds of the Allied Museum brings the unique history of the Airlift to life.
The second part of the permanent exhibition in the Nicholson Memorial Library documents not just everyday life in the American, British, and French military communities up to 1994, but also the controversial activities of their intelligence services in Cold War Berlin. A highlight of the guided tour is the American-British spy tunnel of 1955/56.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Foyer of the Outpost Theater
No reservation needed. The tour is free of charge.
Tempelhof Central Airport: The American Story
Public guided tour of the temporary exhibition
Come and discover the American epoch of Berlin’s former main airport in the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport: The American Story.” With its 1,230-meter-long curved and canopied structure, the Nazi-era airport building was not just one of the largest building complexes in the world, but also a historic site that mirrored the events of the twentieth century. .
The exhibition extends from the American takeover of the airport in July 1945 from the Soviet troops who had captured the terrain to the handover to Berlin’s airport authority (Berliner Flughafengesellschaft) in 1993, underlining Tempelhof Airport’s significance as a memorial site for the Cold War. It stands for a fascinating chapter in Berlin and international history: The many original exhibits bring to life the four-power air-traffic administration that was so vital for West Berlin, the airlift and refugee transports, spy flights and electronic reconnaissance, spectacular passenger plane hijackings and escapes as well as the colorful world of the Allied airlines.
The findings of recent historical excavations by archeologists on the former airport grounds will be on display for the first time in the exhibition. They represent the different “time strata” existing under the surface of the airport terrain.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Nicholson Memorial Library
The tour is free of charge.
Photo Show: Who left, what remains?
Separate Goodbyes–Shared Recollections? The Withdrawal of the Four Powers Twenty Years Ago
A cooperation between the Allied Museum and the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst
The supply of images of events in recent history is virtually limitless. Does this also apply to the stationing of foreign troops in Germany? In Berlin, the former Allied military presence has become a marginal phenomenon.
And yet the remains of more than 40 years of American, British, French and Soviet troop presence in and around Berlin persists, more or less unremarked, in the city- and landscape.
The photographers Mila Hacke, Andreas Franke, Joachim Liebe and Mike Terry explore the traces of this time in their work. Their pictures show military towns that became ghost towns; buildings that have lost their purpose, decayed or taken on a new lease of life; and people who have lost their jobs, moved on or are still preoccupied with the legacy of the Allies.
Following the photo show, the photographers on the podium will explain how they work and offer the personal impressions they gathered during their projects.
Allied Museum, Outpost Theater, Clayallee 135 14195 Berlin
Admission is free of charge
Of a chocolate pilot and spies
Free, public family tour
Our family tour gives children, parents, and grandparents the opportunity to discover the permanent exhibition. We show you exceptional objects from a chocolate parachute of the Berlin Airlift era to the spy tunnel. The stories surrounding these exhibits are unusual and fascinating.
The focal point of the tour is the history of the Berlin Airlift. Together with your children you can marvel at the exterior and interior of the original British Airlift plane, also known as the “Candy Bomber.” A segment of the Berlin Wall helps to make the division of the city real for children. The tour on the trail of the Western powers ends with the withdrawal of the Allied forces in 1994.
We make every effort to connect the exhibition with the children’s own life experience, and questions are always encouraged. Parents and children have the opportunity to engage in discussion with our docents.
The tour is suitable for children 8 years and older and will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Foyer of the Outpost Theater
No reservation needed. The tour is free of charge.
Symposium: Separate Goodbyes – Shared Recollections? The Withdrawal of the Four Powers Twenty Years Ago
A cooperation between the Allied Museum and the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst Venue: German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst Twenty years ago, on August 31, 1994, (East) Germany bid farewell to the last Russian solders in a ceremony at Berlin’s Schauspielhaus in the presence of former Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl and then Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
The Western Allies USA, Great Britain and France were also honored and given a proper sendoff: First with a joint military parade on June 18, 1994 before a cheering crowd of 75,000 and finally—with the highest military honors of the Bundeswehr, the first Grand Tattoo (Großer Zapfenstreich) held in reunified Berlin—on September 8 before the Brandenburg Gate.
The (re-) establishment of the Allied Museum and the German-Russian Museum in Berlin’s Karlshorst district also occurred at this time. The Allied Museum is dedicated to the history of the Western powers in Berlin after 1945; the theme of the German-Russian Museum is the German war of annihilation against the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1945.
Twenty years after the withdrawal of the four occupying powers from Berlin and twenty-five years after reunification and the end of the Cold War, the two museums are now organizing a joint program. At two events, participants in and observers of that time will have a chance to present their reflections and discuss the process of withdrawal and its preconditions and consequences.
October 9, 2014, 2:00 – 8:00 pm
SYMPOSIUM
Proceeding from the question of what actually happened in Berlin in 1994 in Berlin, experts and eyewitnesses will discuss the political, military and experiential dimensions of the withdrawal of the Four Powers’ troops.
2:15 – 3:00 pm| Keynote address
The Troop Withdrawal in 1994 in the Context of Politics and International Law
Dr. Christian Thomas Müller
Lecturer at the Historical Institute of Potsdam University; book publication: US-Truppen und Sowjetarmee in Deutschland. Erfahrungen, Beziehungen, Konflikte im Vergleich (US Troops and the Soviet Army in Germany: A Comparison of Experiences, Relationships and Conflicts)
3:15 – 4:15 pm| Panel discussion
Leaving everything neat and tidy: How was the troop withdrawal from Berlin organized and coordinated? Inside perspectives from military practice
General Alexander N. Efteev
1989 – 1991 Commander of the Berlin Brigade, which was stationed in Berlin’s Karlshorst district
Robin Greenham
Former member of BRIXMIS (The British Commanders'-in-Chief Mission to the Soviet Forces in Germany), British Army liaison officer
N.N.
Officers of the American and French armed forces during the period of withdrawal
4:15 – 5:00 pm| Coffee break
5:00 – 6:00 pm| Panel discussion
What did the troop withdrawal mean for the population? The social and psychological dimensions of the troop withdrawal in reunified Berlin.
Gerhard E. Zellmer (invited)
Former civilian employee in the British sector of West Berlin; chairman of the Kameradschaft 248 German Security Unit e.V.
Eva Badel (invited)
Eyewitness; chairwoman of the Karlshorst Oral History Circle
6:15 – 7:45 pm| Roundtable discussion
Political actors in the years of the troop withdrawal, 1990 – 1994
Vladislav Petrovich Terekhov (invited)
1990–1997 Ambassador of the Soviet Union and later the Russian Federation in Berlin
John C. Kornblum
1997–2001 Ambassador of the USA in Berlin; before that various diplomatic and political functions, including in the former GDR (political advisor to the US Embassy), West Berlin (deputy commander of the American Sector) and NATO (US ambassador to the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe)
Eberhard Diepgen
1984–1989 and 1991– 2001 Governing Mayor of (West) Berlin; he oversaw the departure of the Four Powers from Berlin and Germany in 1994
Renate Künast (invited)
MdB, 2005–2013 Chairwoman of the parliamentary group of Alliance 90/ The Greens in the Bundestag; she was a critic of the Western powers’ occupation (policy) in Berlin in the 1980s
8 pm | Reception
The symposium will take place at the German-Russian Museum in Berlin-Karlshorst
further info: www.museum-karlshorst.de
How Enemies Became Friends
Overview tour of the permanent exhibition
Get to know the most interesting exhibits from 50 years of Allied presence in Berlin. The first part of the exhibition in the former Outpost Theater is dedicated to the period from 1945 to 1950. Numerous documents, photos and objects tell the checkered history of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany up to the early occupation period in Berlin.
The Cold War reached an initial highpoint with the Soviet blockade of Berlin and the Western powers’ Airlift in 1948/49. A tour of the British Hastings TG 503 transport plane on the grounds of the Allied Museum brings the unique history of the Airlift to life.
The second part of the permanent exhibition in the Nicholson Memorial Library documents not just everyday life in the American, British, and French military communities up to 1994, but also the controversial activities of their intelligence services in Cold War Berlin. A highlight of the guided tour is the American-British spy tunnel of 1955/56.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Foyer of the Outpost Theater
No reservation needed. The tour is free of charge.
How Enemies Became Friends
Overview tour of the permanent exhibition
Get to know the most interesting exhibits from 50 years of Allied presence in Berlin. The first part of the exhibition in the former Outpost Theater is dedicated to the period from 1945 to 1950. Numerous documents, photos and objects tell the checkered history of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany up to the early occupation period in Berlin.
The Cold War reached an initial highpoint with the Soviet blockade of Berlin and the Western powers’ Airlift in 1948/49. A tour of the British Hastings TG 503 transport plane on the grounds of the Allied Museum brings the unique history of the Airlift to life.
The second part of the permanent exhibition in the Nicholson Memorial Library documents not just everyday life in the American, British, and French military communities up to 1994, but also the controversial activities of their intelligence services in Cold War Berlin. A highlight of the guided tour is the American-British spy tunnel of 1955/56.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Foyer of the Outpost Theater
No reservation needed. The tour is free of charge.
Special Tour: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further info
Special Tours: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further Info
Special Tour: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further info
Tempelhof Central Airport: The American Story
Public guided tour of the temporary exhibition
Come and discover the American epoch of Berlin’s former main airport in the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport: The American Story.” With its 1,230-meter-long curved and canopied structure, the Nazi-era airport building was not just one of the largest building complexes in the world, but also a historic site that mirrored the events of the twentieth century. .
The exhibition extends from the American takeover of the airport in July 1945 from the Soviet troops who had captured the terrain to the handover to Berlin’s airport authority (Berliner Flughafengesellschaft) in 1993, underlining Tempelhof Airport’s significance as a memorial site for the Cold War. It stands for a fascinating chapter in Berlin and international history: The many original exhibits bring to life the four-power air-traffic administration that was so vital for West Berlin, the airlift and refugee transports, spy flights and electronic reconnaissance, spectacular passenger plane hijackings and escapes as well as the colorful world of the Allied airlines.
The findings of recent historical excavations by archeologists on the former airport grounds will be on display for the first time in the exhibition. They represent the different “time strata” existing under the surface of the airport terrain.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Nicholson Memorial Library
The tour is free of charge.
Special Tours: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further Info
Special Tour: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further info
Special Tours: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further Info
Special Tour: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further info
Special Tours: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further Info
Special Tour: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further info
Special Tours: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further Info
Special Tour: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further info
Special Tours: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further Info
Special Tour: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further info
Tempelhof Central Airport: The American Story
Public guided tour of the temporary exhibition
Come and discover the American epoch of Berlin’s former main airport in the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport: The American Story.” With its 1,230-meter-long curved and canopied structure, the Nazi-era airport building was not just one of the largest building complexes in the world, but also a historic site that mirrored the events of the twentieth century. .
The exhibition extends from the American takeover of the airport in July 1945 from the Soviet troops who had captured the terrain to the handover to Berlin’s airport authority (Berliner Flughafengesellschaft) in 1993, underlining Tempelhof Airport’s significance as a memorial site for the Cold War. It stands for a fascinating chapter in Berlin and international history: The many original exhibits bring to life the four-power air-traffic administration that was so vital for West Berlin, the airlift and refugee transports, spy flights and electronic reconnaissance, spectacular passenger plane hijackings and escapes as well as the colorful world of the Allied airlines.
The findings of recent historical excavations by archeologists on the former airport grounds will be on display for the first time in the exhibition. They represent the different “time strata” existing under the surface of the airport terrain. Under the name “Tempelhofer Freiheit” the former airport has become one of Berlin’s most significant but also most controversial urban development projects.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Nicholson Memorial Library
The tour is free of charge.
Reservation: info@alliiertenmuseum.de or 030/ 81 81 99 0
Special Tours: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further Info
Special Tour: Tempelhof – Cold War Highlights
To accompany the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport. The American Story,” the Allied Museum, in cooperation with Berlin kompakt, is offering scheduled tours of the airport building and the Museum’s large-scale object depot from July to mid-September 2014.
During the tour, “Tempelhof Airport– Cold War Highlights,” qualified guides from our partner Berlin kompakt will acquaint you with the complex history of the airport’s use after 1945. This will help to bring alive the themes of the temporary exhibition “Tempelhof Central Airport–The American Story” at the original scene of events.
further info
65 years Clayallee
Overview tour of the permanent exhibition
Get to know the most interesting exhibits from 50 years of Allied presence in Berlin. The first part of the exhibition in the former Outpost Theater is dedicated to the period from 1945 to 1950. Numerous documents, photos and objects tell the checkered history of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany up to the early occupation period in Berlin.
The Cold War reached an initial highpoint with the Soviet blockade of Berlin and the Western powers’ Airlift in 1948/49. A tour of the British Hastings TG 503 transport plane on the grounds of the Allied Museum brings the unique history of the Airlift to life.
The second part of the permanent exhibition in the Nicholson Memorial Library documents not just everyday life in the American, British, and French military communities up to 1994, but also the controversial activities of their intelligence services in Cold War Berlin. A highlight of the guided tour is the American-British spy tunnel of 1955/56.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Foyer of the Outpost Theater
No reservation needed. The tour is free of charge.
From G.I. Blues to G.I. Disco – The American Way of Music in Germany
Public guided tour of the temporary exhibition
From jazz to rock ’n’ roll, from beat and pop to disco, rap and hip-hop – in the post-World War II era popular music from the USA influenced the mentalities of people in Germany. For decades, American G.I.s were also mediators of US pop culture. American Forces Radio (AFN) disseminated musical trends from overseas.
In six thematic rooms, the exhibition illuminates various chapters of pop history in relation to G.I.s in Germany. Thus after World War II jazz and the American big band sound awakened a whole new attitude towards life. When Elvis Presley began his military service in Hesse in 1958 he was already a superstar. Rock ’n’ roll became a new youth culture. Other G.I.s stationed in Germany, such as the five members of The Monks, began their musical careers here. Even after the withdrawal of the Allies in the 1990s relations between Americans and Germans continued to influence the music scene. Cities that retained US bases, such as Heidelberg and Stuttgart, were among the first centers of German hip-hop.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Nicholson Memorial Library
The tour is free of charge.
No reservation needed.
Bata Illic singt Nat King Cole im AlliiertenMuseum
Einmaliges Konzert im Outpost Theater
Das AlliiertenMuseum wird zur Music Hall! Bata Illic gibt am Donnerstag, 3. April 2014, ein Konzert im Outpost Theater. Der bekannte und beliebte Schlagerstar („Michaela“, „Ich hab’ noch Sand in den Schuhen von Hawaii“) wird sich dabei von einer der breiten Öffentlichkeit eher unbekannten Seite zeigen: Der gebürtige Jugoslawe kehrt erstmals nach 50 Jahren zu seinen musikalischen Wurzeln zurück und singt die schönsten Songs von Nat King Cole und Frank Sinatra.
Bata Illic ist dem AlliiertenMuseum durch die aktuelle Sonderausstellung „Von G.I. Blues zu G.I. Disco. Der ‚American Way of Music’ in Deutschland“ verbunden. In einem Video-Interview erzählt Illic vom spannenden Beginn seiner Karriere in den Soldatenclubs.
Eintritt 5,00 Euro
Karten im Vorverkauf ab dem 25.März im AlliiertenMuseum sowie an der Abendkasse
How Enemies Became Friends
Overview tour of the permanent exhibition
Get to know the most interesting exhibits from 50 years of Allied presence in Berlin. The first part of the exhibition in the former Outpost Theater is dedicated to the period from 1945 to 1950. Numerous documents, photos and objects tell the checkered history of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany up to the early occupation period in Berlin.
The Cold War reached an initial highpoint with the Soviet blockade of Berlin and the Western powers’ Airlift in 1948/49. A tour of the British Hastings TG 503 transport plane on the grounds of the Allied Museum brings the unique history of the Airlift to life.
The second part of the permanent exhibition in the Nicholson Memorial Library documents not just everyday life in the American, British, and French military communities up to 1994, but also the controversial activities of their intelligence services in Cold War Berlin. A highlight of the guided tour is the American-British spy tunnel of 1955/56.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Foyer of the Outpost Theater
No reservation needed. The tour is free of charge.
Of a chocolate pilot and spies
Free, public family tour
Our family tour gives children, parents, and grandparents the opportunity to discover the permanent exhibition. We show you exceptional objects from a chocolate parachute of the Berlin Airlift era to the spy tunnel. The stories surrounding these exhibits are unusual and fascinating.
The focal point of the tour is the history of the Berlin Airlift. Together with your children you can marvel at the exterior and interior of the original British Airlift plane, also known as the “Candy Bomber.” A segment of the Berlin Wall helps to make the division of the city real for children. The tour on the trail of the Western powers ends with the withdrawal of the Allied forces in 1994.
We make every effort to connect the exhibition with the children’s own life experience, and questions are always encouraged. Parents and children have the opportunity to engage in discussion with our docents.
The tour is suitable for children 8 years and older and will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Foyer of the Outpost Theater
No reservation needed. The tour is free of charge.
From G.I. Blues to G.I. Disco – The American Way of Music in Germany
Public guided tour of the temporary exhibition
From jazz to rock ’n’ roll, from beat and pop to disco, rap and hip-hop – in the post-World War II era popular music from the USA influenced the mentalities of people in Germany. For decades, American G.I.s were also mediators of US pop culture. American Forces Radio (AFN) disseminated musical trends from overseas.
In six thematic rooms, the exhibition illuminates various chapters of pop history in relation to G.I.s in Germany. Thus after World War II jazz and the American big band sound awakened a whole new attitude towards life. When Elvis Presley began his military service in Hesse in 1958 he was already a superstar. Rock ’n’ roll became a new youth culture. Other G.I.s stationed in Germany, such as the five members of The Monks, began their musical careers here. Even after the withdrawal of the Allies in the 1990s relations between Americans and Germans continued to influence the music scene. Cities that retained US bases, such as Heidelberg and Stuttgart, were among the first centers of German hip-hop.
The tour will be conducted in German.
Meeting point: Nicholson Memorial Library
The tour is free of charge.
No reservation needed.
Führung und DJ Workshop für Jugendliche im AlliiertenMuseum
Die G.I. Clubs in Deutschland waren die ersten Orte, in denen gescracht, gefaded und gemixt wurde. Hier konnte man ein neues, frisch aus der New Yorker Bronx importiertes Musikgenre live erleben: Hip Hop. Der DJ wurde zum Star jeder Party.
In der Ausstellung „Von G.I. Blues zu G.I. Disco. Der ‚American Way of Music‘ in Deutschland“ könnt ihr dies gut Nachverfolgen. Nun geben wir euch die Möglichkeit, selbst hinter den Turntables zu stehen. Nach einem Rundgang durch das Museum bekommt ihr unter professioneller Anleitung von DJ Mark Hype eine Einführung im Umgang mit den Plattentellern.
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Retracing Elvis's steps in Germany
The King of Rock’n’Roll returned to the Allied Museum. After the screening of the movie “G.I. Blues” fan and contemporary witness Claus-Kurt Ilge talked about his experiences with Elvis Presley.
Ilge grew up in Bad Nauheim, the small town where Elvis lived during his military service in Germany. He presented an overview of his extensive photo- and autograph collection. Elvis’s Army parka, one of the objects on display in the special exhibition “From G.I. Blues to G.I. Disco” is also a loan of Mr Ilge.
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Admission is free of charge.
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