DDR Museum

The DDR Museum is a museum in Berlin -Mitte. It covers in its permanent collection, the life and the culture of everyday life in the GDR. The DDR Museum is located on the waterfront at the Karl-Liebknecht Bridge in DomAquarée, opposite the Berlin Cathedral on the site of the former palace hotels. According to statistics from the Institute for Museum Research and the Berlin Senate Chancellery it was in 2012 with 504 564 visitors on place 9 of the most visited museums and memorials.

The museum includes the topics " state border of the GDR", Berlin, traffic, Stasi, Shopping, DDR products, Building, Housing, wife and family, media, education, youth, work, fashion, culture, leisure, holiday, party, state, ideology, sister states, the GDR opposition, prison, economy, environment and government. Unlike other museums, a large part of the exhibits can be touched in this exhibition: You can sit in a Trabant, kitchen and living room rummage in the cupboards or take clothes from a wardrobe and view.

The house advertises a visitor occupied Originally Posted by itself as one of the most interesting museums in the world: One of the most interesting museums in the world.

Special exhibition elements

  • First exhibition space ( housing estate on a reduced scale ) and the second exhibition room ( front of and behind the scenes)
  • Museum Game ( interactive game system for four players, mix of board and computer game )
  • Prefab apartment ( living room, kitchen, bathroom)
  • Cinema
  • Trabant with driving simulation
  • Stasi - monitoring device
  • Fogscreen ( smokescreen )
  • Multi-touch table
  • Volvo with driving simulation
  • Prison cell and interrogation room

Special exhibits

  • Printing machine of the environment library
  • Film projector of the Council of State
  • Satellite
  • Lack diary
  • Satchel with schoolwork, certificates and homework book
  • Mural " Praise of Communism " by Ronald Paris
  • Erdmine of the German - German border
  • 1 megabit chip
  • Volvo 264 TE from the Minister fleet

There are generally at the exhibition not necessarily the individual exhibits, but the scenic compilation of the exhibits in the foreground. This conveys the experience.

The archive comprises according to the official data on 205,000 objects that are archived on conservation aspects. On the website of the museum, a digital catalog is under construction.

Exhibition design

From an input level of the visitor descends in a staged housing estate at a scale of 1:20. Each plate includes a different topic, in every individual are numerous drawers, flaps, doors, windows or media. Behind these elements, see the exhibits and information. In addition to the slab, there are still a Trabant for placing therein, a large playing field, a cinema and a prefabricated apartment. The whole exhibition is constructed interactively. Since October 2010, the exhibition is also connected an experience restaurant where visitors can experience the GDR typical cuisine.

History

The DDR Museum project was launched by the Freiburg ethnologist Peter Kenzelmann. According to media reports he had on a trip to Berlin wanted a museum to the GDR and found none. The house was opened on 15 July 2006. Founding director is Robert Rückel, scientific director Stefan Wolle.

On 14 July 2007, the museum celebrated its first anniversary and claimed to have received 180,000 visitors in the first year. It was also presented to the Museum Game in July 2007 - an interactive game system in the exhibition. In January 2008, the DDR Museum for the European Museum of the Year Award was nominated as Best European Museum of the Year. On 26 August 2008, the DDR Museum welcomed its 500,000 visitors. On December 23, 2009, the museum had its one millionth visitor.

On 10 October 2010 the second part of the permanent exhibition was opened with numerous new topics and new media stations. The exhibition space has thus more than doubled to about 1,000 m². On the same date also opened the Domklause, a the museum attached GDR restaurant.

The second permanent exhibition was nominated for the European Museum of the Year Award 2012.

Carrier

The DDR Museum is a private initiative and omitted to state funding. Carrier is the DDR Museum Berlin GmbH, Managing Director Robert Rückel (as of December 2008).

In support, there is a non-profit sponsoring, the DDR Museum Berlin eV Further, there is a DDR Museum Publishing, which publishes the publications of the museum.

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