Press

In general, the DDR Museum does not mind if you ask visitors for their individual opinions. Please register your visit with the spokesperson and let us know in which journalistic setting the interviews should take place. Experience has shown that our visitors are happy to talk about their own experiences and impressions. However, please proceed with caution and do not pressure our guests into talking, in order to allow them an unimpaired exhibition experience.

Yes, but please bear in mind that the DDR Museum is always busy and there may be a lot of noise. Filming is only possible after prior consultation with the spokesperson. The only condition is that our visitors can use all our installations at any time. Therefore, no areas will be closed off or restricted.

We recommend that you plan a shoot before (between 7 and 9 am) or after the opening hours (from 9 pm). 

Yes. If you show your valid press card at the ticket office, you will receive a free press ticket after accreditation. One press ticket will be issued per press card.

Yes, if the photos are used exclusively for reporting on the DDR Museum. All other uses must be approved by the spokesperson.

Several interview partners are available to you for reporting on the DDR Museum. Please always contact the spokesperson first for interview requests.

You can subscribe for the press distribution list of the DDR Museum. Please register here for the press newsletter. You will then receive all press releases.

You can shoot at the DDR Museum by arrangement before or after the opening hours, from Monday to Thursday between 7 and 9 am or after 9 pm. If your filming is about reporting on the DDR Museum, your filming permission is free of charge. If you would like to use the museum in another context, e.g. as a backdrop, for photos/films or to shoot moderation contributions, this is also possible for a fee. Please contact the spokesperson for permission to film.

There is little natural light in the DDR Museum. For filming, you usually need additional artificial light sources. There are power sockets in several places in the DDR Museum that you can use.

You can find press photos in printable quality here. You may use them free of charge for reporting on the DDR Museum. The copyright is »DDR Museum, Berlin 2022«. Any other use must be agreed in advance with the spokesperson. Please send an e-mail to presse@ddr-museum.de.

The DDR Museum was ceremoniously opened on 14 July 2006 by the then Senator for Culture and the Mayor. Since the first day of opening on 15 July 2006, it has already been visited by more than 6.5 million people from all over the world (as of 9/2020).

On a trip to Berlin, the Freiburg ethnologist Peter Kenzelmann wanted to visit a DDR museum. He was convinced that one existed. At the tourist information office, he learned that there were memorials on the history of the state security and the Berlin Wall, but not a museum on the history of life under the GDR dictatorship. So the idea was born and it became clear that until then, museums only dealt with individual topics of the GDR, but did not explain the strong influence of the socialist state on all areas of life of its inhabitants.

Most of the exhibits come from private households. Thousands of different donors have preserved objects for posterity. Some of the exhibits are on permanent loan. Others, such as the Trabant car, were purchased.

The collection of the DDR Museum currently comprises over 300,000 objects (as of 1/2022). These are kept separately from the exhibition in a depot that is not accessible to the public for security reasons.

For security reasons, the depot is not open to the public. Therefore, it is only possible to photograph or film there in exceptional cases and after specific arrangements have been made.

However, we will be happy to provide you with printable press photos from the depot.