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 (Potsdam) two completely different sides, designed by two architects. Carl von Gontard designed the city side, his pupil, Georg Christian Unger, the field or countryside-facing side. Gontard made the city side as a rendered facade with Corinthian-style lesenes and trophies, Unger designed the field site in the style of the Arch of Constantine with Corinthian double-columns and ornamentation like the golden trumpets. The two side entrances for pedestrians were not added until 1843, under Frederick William IV, in order to cope with the increase in pedestrian traffic. At that time people had to pass the Brandenburg Gate if they wanted to