The tour provides an overview of the most important topics covered by the DDR Museum. You can choose the lenght:
60 Min
90 Min
120 Min
Resellers
Benefit from your status as a reseller
- 15 % discount on the price of all entrance tickets and guided tours
- affordable group prices and smooth organisation
- engaging for groups without prior knowledge of the topic
- bilingual exhibition (German and English)
- additional services such as guided tours and talks with eyewitnesses in a range of foreign languages
- central location in Berlin between the TV Tower and Museum Island
- coach parking available in the immediate vicinity
Guided Tours of the Museum
Guided Tour
Combined Tours
Party and State
The DDR Museum is located in the former centre of East German power. A one-hour museum tour is followed by a further hour visiting the site of the former Palace of the Republic, the Council of State and the Headquarters of the Socialist Unity Party.
120 Min
The Karl-Marx-Allee
A one-hour tour of the DDR Museum is followed by a two-hour tour of East Germany‘s most prestigious boulevard. Designed to embody the victory of Socialism, the Stalin-era ats actually provided the starting point of the workers’ uprising of 17 June 1953.
180 Min
City Tours
Everyday life in the capital of the DDR
Economic shortage, anti-Fascism and the niche society: the two-hour tour traces the everyday life of a lost world by visiting original loca- tions in Berlin.
120 Min
The Berlin Wall
A two-hour tour retracing the course of the former death strip between West and East Berlin, from Bornholmer Straße to Bernauer Straße.
120 Min
Opposition in the DDR
This two-hour tour takes its groups through areas which presented hotbeds of opposition to the GDR in the 1980s. Your guide traces the origins of the peaceful revolution of 1989.
120 Min
The people's uprising of the 17th June 1953
This three-hour tour traces the course of the events of the mass uprising in East Berlin on June 17, 1953 and takes its participants to the original locations of protest and repression. The tour remembers the 55 victims who died for the cause of freedom.
180 Min
Berlin-Mitte
This four-hour tour through the centre of Berlin takes visitors to Unter den Linden, the Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and other locations signi cant to the history of Berlin in the twentieth century.
240 Min
Talks and workshops
Eyewitness talks
Talks from contemporary eyewitnesses offer a first-hand account of everyday life in East Germany. Audiences can ask questions their own questions of the speakers gain a vivid appreciation of the special quality of life in East Germany. We can provide eyewitnesses to speak on almost any aspect of life in the DDR. Popular topics include everyday life in the DDR, school life, work, their oppositional activities and imprisonment by the Stasi.
Eyewitness talks are also available in a number of foreign languages.
Workshops
Children learn best when active. Our participatory workshops focussing on topics such as "ideology" and the "East German school system" enthuse pupils, enabling them to differentiate between concepts such as democracy and dictatorship. We organize workshops focussing on the following topics:
- Ideology and Propaganda
- Education
- The People’s Uprising 17 June 1953
- The peaceful revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall
We offer guided tours in the following languages:
German, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.
Further languages for both guided tours and eyewitness talks are available upon request.