Blog :: DDR Museum

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.

News

The DDR Museum doubles its Exhibition Space!

Museum news

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.

Review

Behind the wall. "Perfectly Normal Lives" in the GDR? directed by Mary Fulbrook

Topic DDR

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?

We painted out kitchen up, have a look!

31 May 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt

The last two nights, we painted our kitchen up. How do you like it?!

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.

Review

"The Peaceful Revolution" by Jens Schöne

Reviews

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.

Tip

Postcards from the GDR

Topic DDR

25 Mar 2010 by Melanie Alperstaedt

If you like postcards, so I would like to recommand you two links.

Exhibition

Exercises with grenades...

Museum news

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!

Tip

Vademecum Contemporary History Moldavia: A guide to communistic history

Topic DDR

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.

Event

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

Museum news

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.

Retrospect

2009 - A very successful year for the DDR Museum

Museum news

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.

Press

What do you know about the "Ampelmännchen"?

Topic DDR

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!

News

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

Museum news

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:

App

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

Museum news

29 Oct 2009 by Admin

Our two bestseller, the GDR-Game and the Wall-Game are available as animated games for the iPhone.

Event

Berlin’s 25th Long Night of the Museums

Museum news

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.

Event

Sandmann lecture at the DDR Museum

Museum news

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".

DDR Museum

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

Museum news

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!

Tip

Memory of the Hitler-Stalin-Pact

Topic DDR

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.

Event

The Blues Mass was a success!

Museum news

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!