5 years in the making, Union Station’s next exhibit is a North American premiere
%20Peace%20Museum%20UK%20%C2%A9%20Musealia.jpg "“The Berlin Wall. A World Divided,” is a new exhibit making its North American debut at Union Station in May 2026.")
Union Station president and CEO George Guastello said the next exhibit opening inside the attraction’s 20,000 square-foot gallery was five years in the making.
Following “Titanic: An Immersive Voyage,” Union Station is once again working with Spain-based traveling exhibit company Musealia to bring the story of the Berlin Wall to Kansas City in May.
The producers of “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away” are helping to bring “The Berlin Wall. A World Divided,” to North America for the first time ever, premiering at Union Station in the summer of 2026. An official date has not been revealed, but Guastello said it will open before the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
“What Union Station does especially well is take our guests on important, emotional journeys to places and events that have defined world history,” Guastello said in a statement. “With this exhibition, guests will step back in time to events from 1945 through the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
“As the eyes of the world turn to us during FIFA World Cup, it is especially fitting that we welcome global audiences with such a powerful story here at Union Station.”
Muselia opened the exhibit in November 2023 in Madrid and later took it to Paris and Barcelona.
The exhibit will host more than 40 lenders from 20 international institutions. It will highlight different perspectives and experiences of people living on both sides of the Berlin Wall and in the context of the Cold War through a collection of 200 original objects on public display for the first time in the continent.
Divided into four galleries, guests will experience:
- A World Divided
- Before the Wall
- Division and Living with the Wall
- Global Transformation and the End of the Cold War
Inside each gallery are several large sections of the Berlin Wall and materials related to its evolution, like early barbed wire, escape-deterrent obstacles such as a spiked metal ground structure called “Stalin’s lawn.”
Other artifacts show how Berlin’s division stood during the Cold War, like personal belongings of Hiroshima bombing victims, fragments of a spy tunnel, notes exchanged across the Wall and banners from the peaceful revolutions of the 1980s.
Each gallery has a free audio guide in English and Spanish that will tell more facts related to what visitors are seeing inside the exhibit.
Luis Ferreiro, director of Musealia, said in a statement that the exhibition shows the history of repression by the communist regime of the former German Democratic Republic. It also shows inspiring examples of ordinary citizens in their struggle for freedom, democracy and human rights.
“More than 30 years after its fall, the Berlin Wall story is a powerful reminder of the need to care for and preserve, in the face of new and old challenges, our democracies and the best path to peaceful coexistence,” Ferreiro said.
Anytime tickets are available now for $28, which includes the flexibility to visit the exhibition at your convenience for one-time entry any day.
