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The graffiti that still remain on this segment expressed the sentiments of West Berliners toward the Wall at the time of its fall.
From the Museums I strolled toward a street they share with Humboldt University as part of an urban campus. The cafe-restaurant I entered was full with a mix of tourists and students, as my friendly server Christina described them. She was herself a student. She introduced me to her friends at the table next to mine, students hosting relatives from out of town who had just visited the Museums.
I followed the brick line to the most famous of the nine crossings at the Wall where movement into East Berlin had been allowed. This one, Checkpoint Charlie.
The art that contextualizes the memory of Berlin’s division after World War II is elegant in its simplicity. It is a line of two bricks set side by side on the streets going 27 miles where the Berlin Wall dissected the city.
I heard several tour guides who brought their hordes of eager customers here, ironically, deriding its “Disney- Land” transfiguration since the fall of the Wall.
Perhaps the best examples were the sculptures of the famous love
and power quadrangle of the Macedonian-Egyptian Queen Cleopatra.
A further reminder of Egypt was a section of a floor mosaic, dating to 80 BC, found in Praeneste (close to the city of Rome). It shows couples reclining underneath a pergola in what the Museum called “Banquet during the Festival of the Nile Flooding.
It is in the Roman sculptures that, as the Museum signs said, one can find “the most impressive” example of the “creative adoption” of various strands from foreign lands.
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