From tomorrow, you will get the opportunity to pop in at our exhibition stand in hall 12.101 at the ITB!
After my colleague Mr. Klötzke and I had driven to the fairground in our "small runabout" with our flyers, pieces of information, biros, postcards, bags etc. on Tuesday and had stored everything away, my colleagues including me are featured on the Berlin Stars exhibition stand since Wednesday.

Yes, we were a littlebit excited: We waited for the 2.000.000th visitor for some days, but this morning we knew: He or she will come today!

The day started early for Miss Wrusch and me on Saturday. At 8.45am we were at our exhibition stand already to make the last preparations. And as it is sometimes: We had forgotten something! It was a power cable for the TV which shows a video of the DDR Museum connected via a player. In case we were still tired - in this moment we were wide awake! However, that problem was solved surprisingly quickly: We took the power cable of the player for the TV and simply inserted the USB stick with the saved video directly into the TV. Then we had to change some TV settings and by that, we learned that we didn't actually need the player at all. :)

Last Saturday, the 30th Lange Nacht der Museen („Long Night of the Museums") took place. In spite of freezing temperatures and onset of winter we opened our museum until 2.00am again this year. Many night owls who are interested in culture took the opportunity to visit the Berlin museums at a late hour and to get an impression of how the different institutions presented themselves.

Maybe you already know: You can follow the DDR Museum on Twitter. There, you have the opportunity to directly get in touch with the director!

Sometimes, we in the office are very lucky to taste new dishes from the GDR restaurant Domklause. When the restaurant manager mentioned that there's gonna be home-made apple strudel tomorrow, there was great professional interest. ;)

Dear guests, dear friends, dear colleagues, the year 2011 draws to a close and Christmas is just around the corner.

Dear guests, dear friends, dear colleagues, the year 2011 draws to a close and Christmas is just around the corner.

Mark Scheppert began writing his stories in 2008 and he intended to write something new and unique about the GDR representative for his generation and not existing so far.

Today started with good news! The DDR Museum with its second permanent exhibition is nominated again for the "European Museum of the Year Award" and of course, the joy is great! This nomination is a particular praise to all of us who worked so hard last year to implement the extension of the DDR Museum and the new permanent exhibition's concept.