Berliners are known for liking street parties. For a whole week, streets will be blocked off for traffic when the city remembers the tumultuous days of thirty years ago when the wall fell.

At seven symbolic locations, moving images are displayed outdoors from the 1989 events that led to the unification of Germany and Europe.

Families split when the Wall divided Berlin overnight. At Bernauer Strasse there is a memorial site and an outdoor museum. Photo: Wikimedia commons

One of the anniversary projects is called Handshape. Two people should push a lump of clay between their hands in a unifying handshake. For an exhibition you want to collect 10,957 handshakes - so many days have passed since the peaceful revolution in November 1989.

Virtual environments such as escape tunnels, watchtowers and border facilities will take visitors on a time-travel back to the atmosphere of the divided city's cold war.

The Berlin Wall divided the city overnight in 1961 to stop the mass exodus from the GDR. Thirty years later, the border was opened. Photo: SVT / Ingrid Thörnqvist

Berlin is expecting a million guests for its anniversary. The finale will be a great music program at Brandenburger Tor. Across the historic monument is a floating art installation, a so-called Skynet by artist Patrick Shearn, floating. 30,000 messages will be in the works to remind those who dared to raise their voices and thus helped to tear down the Berlin Wall.

The East Side Gallery is a part of the Berlin Wall, which is an art museum just over 1000 meters long. Photo: SVT / Ingrid Thörnqvist

SVT broadcasts a full evening on the Berlin Wall on the ninth of November with a concert, documentaries and a live broadcast from the celebration at Brandenburg Gate.