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A clever cow for the DDR Museum!

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.
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1989. The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe by Mary Elise Sarotte

18 May 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
Sometimes, we take history as a matter of course. It happend this or that way, but could it also happened differently?! History is influenced by important human decisions and there were a lot of decisions in 1989. Mary Elise Sarotte analizes these political decisions and changes during the fall of the wall and the German reunification.
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Review

"The Peaceful Revolution" by Jens Schöne

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.
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Postcards from the GDR

25 Mar 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
If you like postcards, so I would like to recommand you two links.
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Exhibition

Exercises with grenades...

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!
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Vademecum Contemporary History Moldavia: A guide to communistic history

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.
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Event

The DDR Museum was one of the most visited museums during the Long Night of the Museums!

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.
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Social Media

Become a Fan of the DDR Museum on Facebook!

3 Mar 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt
Since some weeks, the DDR Museum has got a fan page on facebook. If you do not know facebook, I recommand you to read the article on Wikipedia to get a first impression.
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Retrospect

2009 - A very successful year for the DDR Museum

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.
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Press

What do you know about the "Ampelmännchen"?

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!
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News

The DDR Museum is the 11th Most Visited Museum in Berlin

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:
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App

Everybody can get our bestselling games as an iPhone-App!

29 Oct 2009 by Admin
Our two bestseller, the GDR-Game and the Wall-Game are available as animated games for the iPhone.
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Event

Berlin’s 25th Long Night of the Museums

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.
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Event

Sandmann lecture at the DDR Museum

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".
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DDR Museum

The New Website is Complete: Let`s Talk About Our new Online Shop

24 Aug 2009 by Melanie Alperstaedt
We are proud to present the new online Shop at our website. It is the result of hard work!
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Memory of the Hitler-Stalin-Pact

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.
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Event

The Blues Mass was a success!

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!
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Retrospect

We Enjoy our 3rd Birthday!

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.
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Donation

Stand to Attention! A very special Donation

14 Jul 2009 by Melanie Alperstaedt
A special highlight of the last few days was the visit of a unit of the German armed forces. The group comes from the Dahme-Spree-Barracks and they do not only wanted to visit the DDR Museum. Before they got their guided tour, which was planned within the framework of a political educational trip, they donated a tapestry, which is in a very good condition.
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Press

Mike Kraus for PBS from New York

14 Jul 2009 by Melanie Alperstaedt
The last two days, I met journalists from two different continents: Mike Kraus from New York and several journalists from Hong Kong.
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