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DDR Museum

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    Exterior view of the DDR Museum in Berlin.

  • DDR Museum

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    Visitors view a 1:125 scale model of the Palace of the Republic in the DDR Museum.

  • DDR Museum

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    Living room in the DDR Museum in Berlin.

  • DDR Museum

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    Trabant driving simulation in the DDR Museum.

The DDR Museum offers you a hands-on experience of everyday life in a state long gone, the life in the German Democratic Republic.

DDR Museum

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With the permanent exhibition "Everyday Life of a Past State at Your Fingertips", the DDR Museum forms the third building block of the scientific reappraisal of the former East Germany alongside the Wall exhibitions and Stasi memorials. In collaboration with historians under the direction of Dr. Stefan Wolle, the museum has set itself the task of preserving an important piece of German cultural history and making it accessible to younger generations. Visitors are invited to expand their knowledge, rethink any existing clichés and experience history at first hand.

Interactive exhibits to take part in

The museum is designed as a family museum and offers children and young people in particular a wide range of opportunities to immerse themselves interactively in history. Among other things, there is a Trabi driving simulation, interactive games and original GDR toys that can and should be played with. Another highlight is the fully furnished five-room apartment, in which visitors can move around freely.

Special exhibitions at the DDR Museum

In addition, the DDR Museum highlights certain aspects of life in the GDR in regularly changing exhibitions - for example on art and music, the Trabi, peace movements and much more. The museum also offers themed tours in numerous languages, outdoor tours, workshops, readings, games and other activities.

DDR Museum: Current events and tickets

© BArch, Bild 183-1990-0205-017 Peer Grimm

40 years since Chernobyl

In his lecture, Sebastian Stude reconstructs the course of the worst-case scenario 40 years ago and sheds light on the reactions in the GDR. more

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Coveted Soviet Italians

Während über die DDR-Zweitakter immer die Nase gerümpft wurde, genossen die verschiedenen Lada-Baureihen als Viertakter von vornherein einen Vertrauensvorschuss. Sie hatten ihren Ursprung im Fiat 124 aus Italien und wurden zuerst als Shiguli, später mit... more

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A life dedicated to nature

Author and Michael Succow biographer Christiane Grefe has taken on the task of capturing Michael Succow's “adventure of life” between two book covers. His experiences and insights as a landscape ecologist, father of the national park program in the former... more

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The Wild West in the East

The state initially struggled with the Wild West, before a new exhibition was even launched in 1985 at the Karl May Museum in Radebeul near Dresden. Solidarity with Native Americans was easier, as shown by the Indian films often produced by the GDR with... more

Korn aus dem Ährenkranz des Staatswappens – Dieter Bankert, einer der Architekten des Palastes der Republik, sicherte dieses originale Korn aus dem Ährenkranz des Staatswappens am Palast der Republik als persönliches Erinnerungsstück.

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A country in a container

With the end of the GDR, its symbols also lost their validity. In the weeks and months leading up to October 3, 1990, public spaces had already undergone visible changes. Signs of SED rule were removed, much of it ending up in bulk waste containers or... more

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 Address
Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 1
10178 Berlin
Phone
+49 (0)30 847 123 730
Internet
www.ddr-museum.de
Opening Hours
Monday to Sunday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. (December 24 and 31 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.)
Accessibility
Barrier-free access via side entrance. Please call the cash desk shortly before arrival. The permanent exhibition is barrier-free up to the level of the Trabant.
Admission Fee
€13,50, concessions €8, children under 6 years free
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Last edited: 24 June 2025