Walk-through screen

As if by magic, the two parts of the exhibition are separated by the projection of a concrete slab housing estate. Looking more closely, you can see that the picture is lacking substance, made up only of smoke. Moving through the projection, the picture changes, and the visitor walks down the corridor of an administrative building.

The first half of the exhibition covers the everyday life of the GDR. The second investigates the state which created this experience. The visitor crosses the division between the experience of everyday life and the world of the SED masters. This part of the exhibition considers the story behind the "appearance of reality." The smokescreen, the product of Finnish ingenuity, is the world's first application of this new technology in a museum.