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 then suburbs. The new gate was commissioned by Frederick William II of Prussia to represent peace. The Gate was designed by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the Court Superintendent of Buildings, and built between 1788 and 1791, replacing the earlier simple guardhouses which flanked the original gate in the Customs Wall. The gate consists of twelve Doric columns, six to each side, forming five passageways. Citizens originally were allowed to use only the outermost two on each side. Atop the gate is a Quadriga, a chariot drawn by four horses, sculpted by Johann Gottfried Schadow. The new gate was originally named the