Brandenburg Gate Museum

The Brandenburg Gate Museum was a private museum in Berlin which opened as THE GATE Berlin on April 27, 2016.^[1] It was situated vis-à-vis the Brandenburg Gate in the building Pariser Platz 4a and told 300 years of Berlin history in a multimedia show. Since its founding the Brandenburg Gate Museum was part of the Long Night of Museums in Berlin.^[2] The museum has been closed since the end of April 2019.^[3]

On a 71 m² (764 sq ft) large panoramic screen which covered three walls of the room the museum showed a visual history presentation without language barriers. A 38 channel surround system provided a supporting 3D sound experience. The show took 20 minutes to illustrate Berlin, German and world history based on the Brandenburg Gate.^[4] The supporting exhibition deepened the historical facts and showed a faithful replica of the head of Nike, the Brandenburg Gate Quadriga charioteer and goddess of victory.

Main topics of the exhibition were the following:

• Emergence of Berlin and construction of the Brandenburg Gate
• Revolution of 1848 and Industrial Revolution
• German Empire
• World War I
• Weimar Republic and the Golden Twenties
• Nazi Germany and persecution of Jews
• World War II
• Cold War and building of the Berlin Wall
• Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1990s and Techno
• 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and win of the 2014 FIFA World Cup
• Berlin today

In the exit area there was a shop and a cafe.

• Website of the Berlin Gate Museum