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Google Presents The Fall of the Iron Curtain

Today is the 23rd anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Google, as part of its online culture museum, has released a collection of online exhibitions titled The Fall of the Iron Curtain. It’s a detailed, powerful collection of multimedia exhibitions developed in parternship with Berlin’s DDR Museum, the Polish History Museum, Romanian broadcaster TVR, and Getty Images. 

In the intro video, Google’s Mark Yoshitake explains:

The aim of the Cultural Institute is to preserve and promote culture online. It’s about storytelling. It’s about access. And it’s about disseminating knowledge.

For other exhibitions from the Cultural Institute, see here.

Image: Screenshot from The Fall of the Iron Curtain

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Sightseers at the Berlin Wall, looking into the Eastern Sector, 1961 

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