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The DDR Museum provides a unique visitor experience, making it one of Berlin’s most popular museums. Engage all of your senses to enjoy an immersive experience of everyday life in the former East Germany. Covering a range of topics based on sound academic research – everyday life, the Berlin Wall, the Stasi and much more – our exhibition encourages its visitors to touch, feel and interact, so as to gain a fun and rich understanding of the past. Explore all aspects of life behind the Berlin Wall and the workings of the state – the DDR at a glance.

The exhibition

 

Pictorial: »GDR in Objects 1949-1990. Daily Life, Home, Consumption«

30 years after the reunification, the DDR Museum publishes the first of three illustrated books »GDR in Objects 1949-1990«. Scientifically edited and historically classified, over 1,200 objects on the subjects of daily life, home and consumption from the museum's own and worldwide largest DDR collection are presented on 400 pages. The book is available at the museum as well as online.

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Dissolution of the State Security in the DDR
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Environmental Protection in the DDR
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Children's Literature in the DDR
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Holiday Camps in the DDR
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Nursery Schools in the DDR
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Too Much and Too Fatty: Cuisine in the DDR
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Jugendweihe in the DDR
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Women in DDR Politics
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Cinema in the DDR
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Low-wage Country DDR

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From the Collection

10 DDR Objects from Dresden
Places of the GDR

Berlin State Opera Staatsoper Unter den Linden
GDR in Objects 1949-1990

The Head of Collections' 11 Favourites of the Collection Volume I
Inside the Museum

We present: The online shop of the DDR Museum
Object of the Month

Wooden Toy Truck
Aus der Sammlung

Living in an Old Building – Guides for Renovating Old Buildings
Günter Höhne writes

DDR-Design: Stacking Chair Model 3101 and its COMEBACK
Object of the Month

Board Game »Merry Travels — Spejbl and Hurvinek«
Günter Höhne writes

DDR-Design: Cool Table Fans
To Bake

DDR-Recipe: Pear Casserole

Objects Database

Browse our online database with its thousands of photographs of objects from the DDR.

The exhibition

The permanent exhibition tells the history of the DDR using numerous original artefacts and other objects.

Online Tickets

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