16 Jun 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
I would like to recommend you a selection of articles, backround features and opinions about the German Democratic Republic.
10 Jun 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
Four years after the opening, I can spread happy news! The DDR Museum enlarges its exhibition. The whole team is very excited about that and we are already working on the concept. The construction work starts in the next few days and should be finished in September.
3 Jun 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
Today, I would like to recommand you an interesting documentary, directed by Mary Fulbrook. Sometimes I think, it is very hard to find documentaries and literature about the German Democratic Republic in English, isn`t it?
26 May 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
We have a new cow inside the exhibition! Our old cow was teaching our visitors about the agricultural cooperative societies and the forced collectivization in the German Democratic Republic for years. Everyone was allowed, to touch and open the cow...with what kind of cow can you do this?! Our old cow never complained about that! Nevertheless, it was the time to retire it. A new and modern cow replaced it and is now waiting for the curious hands and eyes of our visitors.
22 Apr 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
Today, I would like to recommand you a book written by Jens Schöne. "The Peaceful Revolution" was published in 2009 by the Berlin Story Verlag. This publishing house published some interesting books about the GDR in english, like the illustrated book "When there was still an east" by Udo Hesse, "The Berlin Wall 1961 - 1989" by the Landesarchiv Berlin or "The Peaceful Revolution" by Jens Schöne.
24 Mar 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
where common during the physical education and military education in GDR schools. The general education system wanted to prepare the children to deal with hand grenades, anti-personal mines and weapons during their military service in the NVA. So they let them exercise with dummies!
5 Mar 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
The Moldova-Institut Leipzig e.V. publishes in cooperation with the Bundesstiftung Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur an interesting and helpful guide to archives, research institutions, libraries, associations, museums and sites of memory concerning the communistic history in Eastern Europe.
4 Mar 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
Do you know the Long Night of The Museums? It is a very special evening, because a lot of museums open untill 2 a.m.. So do we, two times a year.
14 Jan 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
2009 is gone, but it was a very good year for the museum. 398.592 people from all over the world had a hands-on experience of history during their visit of the DDR Museum.
11 Dec 2009 by Melanie Alperstaedt
The Times published an interesting and informative article about a very well known symbol of the GDR: The "Ampelmännchen". This little green man is a traffic light symbol, which was common in the GDR and "survived" the reunification. You do not understand, why the "Ampelmännchen" is so special? You like to know, how he survived?! You will find the answers here!
13 Nov 2009 by Admin
The Senate's Department of Science, Research and Culture of Berlin published the attendances of the most visited museums in Berlin. The 20th most visited museums in Berlin are:
1 Sep 2009 by Admin
The Long Night of the Museums has long been a highlight in the Berlin calendar, attracting a loyal following of locals, as well as visitors from all corners of the globe.
26 Aug 2009 by Admin
Yesterday's evening was characterized bay the famous and popular Sandmann. Dr. Volker Petzold. Author of the book „The big East-West Sandman encyclopedia" (German edition), abducted the audience into the world of the "phenomenon sandman" and he described the background and history of this "interesting, media-historical character".
20 Aug 2009 by Melanie Alperstaedt
History never is one-sided, but complex. Many occurrences are mutuallydependend, cohere with each other or have unexpected effects at the second glance. In the year of the 20th jubilee of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the focus in the media lies on our own remembrance; the German history.
21 Jul 2009 by Melanie Alperstaedt
Hollys Blues Band played an amazing concert, Dirk Moldt and Bernd Schröder commemorated old times and the rapper Prinz Pi enthused hundrets of young people!
14 Jul 2009 by Melanie Alperstaedt
Today, we celebrate the third birthday of the DDR Museum. There is no official party, but the director invites us for dinner in a nice restaurant.