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Commemorative courtyard of the German Resistance Memorial Center
© Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand
© Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand
© Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand
© Gedenkstääte Deutscher Widerstand
© Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand
© Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand

The German Resistance Memorial Center (Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand) is located in the Bendler Block in Berlin’s Mitte district, at the historic site of the attempted coup of July 20, 1944. On the initiative of the circle of resistance fighters of July 20, 1944, the Berlin Senate in 1967 resolved to establish a memorial and educational center intended to inform the public about resistance to National Socialism. The permanent exhibition was then opened on July 20, 1968. Since 1989, the German Resistance Memorial Center's permanent exhibition has been a central site of remembrance in Germany, providing extensive documentation of the motives, aims, and forms of the fight against the National Socialist dictatorship.
The wing of the building complex along the Landwehrkanal has been the Berlin office of the German Federal Ministry of Defense since 1993. Since 1992, the German Resistance Memorial Center has expanded beyond the commemorative courtyard and the permanent exhibition and has acquired further space for temporary exhibitions in the first upper floor on Stauffenbergstrasse.

Opening hours,

  • Monday-Friday 09:00 - 18:00
  • Saturday-Sunday 10:00 - 18:00
  • 1. January closed
  • 24. December closed
  • 25. December closed
  • 26. December closed
  • 31. December closed

Location,

Stauffenbergstraße 13-14, Eingang über den Ehrenhof / Entrance via the commemorative courtyard, 10785 Berlin

Telephone,

+49 (30) 26 99 50 00

Fax,

+49 (30) 26 99 50 10

Website,

www.gdw-berlin.de

Email,

[javascript protected email address]

Prices,

Free entrance

Exhibitions

Permanent exhibition, topic 04 "Resistance from the Workers' Movement"
© Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand

German Resistance Memorial Center

Resistance to National Socialism

Blick in die Dauerausstellung
© Museum Blindenwerkstatt Otto Weidt, Foto: Georg Engels, Ulm
Eingangsbereich der Dauerausstellung

Museum Otto Weidt's Workshop for the Blind

Reich Banner Black-Red-Gold Open depot
© Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand

Display depot Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold

Exhibition Plötzensee Memorial Center
© Gedenkstätte Deutscher Widerstand

Plötzensee Memorial

Silent Heroes Memorial Center, a view of the permanent exhibition
© Gedenkstätte Stille Helden

Silent Heroes Memorial

Resistance to the Persecution of the Jews in Europe 1933 to 1945

Events

Digital

Tickets

Free entrance

Services

  • Museum Shop
  • Library

Accessibility

Handicapped friendly

Video tour in German sign language

https://www.gdw-berlin.de/de/angebote/bildungsangebote/barrierefreiheit/#c3068

Mehr zur Barrierefreiheit bei mobidat.net

Audioguides

In German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Turkish, Videoführung in deutscher Gebärdensprache.

Nearby

Silent Heroes Memorial Center, a view of the permanent exhibition
© Gedenkstätte Stille Helden

Memorial

Silent Heroes Memorial Center

German Resistance Memorial Center Foundation

Kulturforum. Berlin-Tiergarten, Matthäikirchplatz
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Maximilian Meisse
Blick auf den Eingang der Gemäldegalerie am Kulturforum. Berlin-Tiergarten, Matthäikirchplatz

Art Museum

Gemäldegalerie

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Kulturforum am Potsdamer Platz
© Wikimedia Commons. Foto: Manfred Brückels

Art Museum

Kunstbibliothek

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Kulturforum. Berlin-Tiergarten, Matthäikirchplatz
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Maximilian Meisse
Kulturforum. Berlin-Tiergarten, Matthäikirchplatz © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Maximilian Meisse

Art Museum

Kupferstichkabinett

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Straße 50, Berlin-Tiergarten
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker
Neue Nationalgalerie, Potsdamer Straße 50, Berlin-Tiergarten © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker

Art Museum

Neue Nationalgalerie

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Kunstgewerbemuseum Kulturforum, Berlin-Tiergarten
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Foto: Maximilian Meisse
Kunstgewerbemuseum Kulturforum, Berlin-Tiergarten © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Foto: Maximilian Meisse

Design Museum

Kunstgewerbemuseum

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

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