Brandenburg Gate Museum Brandenburg Gate Museum The Brandenburg Gate Museum is a private museum in Berlin which opened as "THE GATE Berlin" on April 27, 2016. It is situated vis-à-vis the Brandenburg Gate in the building Pariser Platz 4a and tells 300 years of Berlin history in a multimedia show. Since its founding the Brandenburg Gate Museum is part of the Long Night of Museums in Berlin. On a 71 m² (764 sq ft) large panoramic screen which covers three walls of the room the museum shows a visual history presentation without language barriers. A 38 channel surround system provides a supporting 3D
Brandenburg Gate of Beethoven at the then newly opened Brandenburg Gate. In the concluding choral movement of the symphony, the famous "Ode to Joy", the word "Freude" ("Joy") was replaced with "Freiheit" ("Freedom") to celebrate the fall of the Wall and the imminent reunification of Germany. On 2–3 October 1990, the Gate was the scene of the official ceremony to mark the reunification of Germany. At the stroke of midnight on 3 October, the black-red-gold flag of West Germany—now the flag of a reunified Germany—was raised over the Gate. On 12 July 1994, U.S. President Bill Clinton spoke at the Gate about