GDR Museum

The GDR Museum is an interactive museum in the center of Berlin. Its exposition is located in the former government district of East Germany, right on the Spree River, opposite Berlin Cathedral. The exhibition tells about the daily life of the inhabitants of the GDR (German Democratic Republic). For some visitors, the museum is a curiosity and exotic, which was not possible to see before, and for others – a recent past, similar to photos of a family album. The exposition is called: “Life and everyday life of the departed state”.

The museum opened on July 15, 2006 as a private museum. This fact is unusual in Germany, because all museums are funded by the state. All museum expositions can not only be seen, but also touched, because they are everyday things – backpacks, diaries and other items, of which there are more than 10 thousand. They were brought here by the Gedeerites themselves to make the museum interactive. The exposition of the museum is divided into 17 themes: youth, housing, food, etc., and in some areas of the museum completely recreated apartments of that time with all the surroundings.