DDR-Museum

The DDR Museum in Berlin presents everyday life in East Germany through an interactive exhibition beside the River Spree. Berlin Cathedral stands directly opposite the museum across the Spree. Visitors explore public life, state and ideology, and life in a prefabricated tower-block flat. The exhibition uses hands-on displays throughout its themed areas. You can try DDR clothing, change television channels, and operate an original typewriter. A cinema and prison cell add physical detail. A recreated WBS 70 flat shows rooms associated with private life in the DDR. A children’s room and bedroom appear inside the recreated flat. The design places scaled-down prefabricated buildings around an entrance platform, where structures divide rooms and hold displays. The exhibition includes a Stasi control room. Visitors open doors and drawers to examine politics and the socialist dictatorship. A Trabant driving simulator adds movement to the exhibition. A Volvo limousine from the ministerial car pool is also displayed. The museum presents history through objects and direct interaction.