Graffiti Museum - Urban Museum In Berlin, Germany

Graffiti and Street Art, same thing or opposites?

Problems
Graffiti spoiling beautiful buildings.
Modern artwork on historic buildings.
'Art' done hastily by people with no talent or care.
Tunnels and alleys and buildings with boring blank walls.
No activities for bored teenagers and young workers.
No plan to remove bad graffiti and create good graffiti.

Answers
A plan to cover blank walls and beautify a city.
Protection for historic and empty buildings. (Barriers and CCTV.)
Restrictions on sale of spray paint to minors who are too young to understand the damage they cause and too young to be prosecuted.
Publicise the cost of clean-up - extremely expensive in time and equipment, admin costs, time consuming, dangerous, and hard to do without damaging the walls, a waste of tax payers' money.
Good graffiti can transform morale and turn into a tourist attraction, generating jobs and income.
If you are bored or looking for voluntary work or a good cause, especially if you in the art or admin world, here's a project for you and your area or city.
Every city should have a central wall which shows its historic landmarks and famous characters.
Commission art work which is trompe l'oeuil, realistic, surreal, skilful.

Stories
I was horrified by the graffiti on wonderful old art nouveau buildings in Bucharest, capital of Romania. My second city stay was in Brasov (the city near the Dracula Castle). One of the famous landmarks in Brasov is the 'string street', a narrow alley, which was ruined by random, unsightly graffiti.

Tourist Visits
Cities Famous For Graffiti
Berlin - Berlin Wall; UrbanMuseum
Bristol - Banksy

Cities Famous for Murals

Philadelphia, USA

London, England

Famous Street Art artists:
DALeast
www.daleast.com
Eine
IcyAndSot
Jeff Soto Facebook

Urban Museum

• • Tuesday-Sunday 10.00 -18.00
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URBAN NATION MUSEUM FOR URBAN CONTEMPORARY ART
Bülowstraße 97
10783 Berlin
Germany

CONTACTTel.: +49(0)30 32295989E-Mail: office@urban-nation.comhttps://www.urban-nation.com/de/

Tips
BBC article on the Berlin museum:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41291813#_=_
Concealing Swastikas:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-40809266/berlin-street-artist-group-cleverly-undo-swastika-graffiti
Facebook on the Urban Museum
https://www.facebook.com/urbannationberlin/
Urban Nation Museum Webpage (has a video)
More ideas on where to go in a visit to Berlin from a Wiki list of museums in Berlin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_and_galleries_in_Berlin

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
See my other posts on graffiti in Romania and murals.