Learn Marker The Autumn Of The Fe Curtain

There are surely events inwards history that are momentous plenty to brand you lot retrieve where you lot were at the time. This Fri is the 23rd anniversary of i of those moments—the autumn of the Berlin Wall on Nov 9, 1989.

To grade this turning betoken inwards history, we’re releasing a collection of online exhibitions nether the subject of The Fall of the Iron Curtain. Partners, including The DDR Museum inwards Berlin, Polish History Museum, Romanaian broadcaster TVR too Getty Images, bespeak keep created xiii exhibitions containing documents, videos too photos telling the stories behind how events unfolded.


Independent historians bespeak keep likewise contributed their expertise. For example, Niall Ferguson, professor of history at Harvard University, provides video commentary on events equally operate of his exhibition The Fall of the Wall: Revelation, non Revolution.

Some of the other exhibitions include:
  • Solidarity & the autumn of The Iron Curtain - the creation too development of the Solidarity merchandise matrimony leading to Lech Walesa's election equally President of Poland inwards 1990
  • Visions of Division - Professor Patrick Major, a specialist inwards Cold War history, gives an describe of piece of occupation organisation human relationship of life inwards a divided Deutschland too the everyday human terms of the Wall
  • Years of change - diary of a fictitious writer documenting events inwards Berlin such equally the staged elections, the showtime protests too David Hasselhoff's concert at the wall
  • The Berlin Job - a personal describe of piece of occupation organisation human relationship of life inwards East Berlin made yesteryear independent curator Peter Millar, i of the solely non-German correspondents inwards East Berlin inwards the 1980s
  • Romanian Revolution - a serial of 4 exhibitions containing to a greater extent than than fifty videos documenting the alive TV transmission of the overthrow of Romanaian dictator Ceausescu



The Fall of the Iron Curtain is the latest chapter inwards the piece of occupation of the Google Cultural Institute, next the launch final calendar month of 42 online historical exhibitions telling the stories behind major events of the final century. You tin explore all the exhibitions on www.google.com/culturalinstitute too follow us on our Google+ page.

If you’re a partner interested inwards working amongst the Google Cultural Institute to plough your archives into online exhibitions, we’d beloved to bespeak heed from you—please fill upwardly out this form.



(Cross-posted from the Google Europe blog)

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