After-Hours Tour

Evening Exhibition Tour "Access to Secrecy"

– Schwarzweiß-Fotografie; Gebäude im Hintergrund; unscharfe Pflanzen im Vordergrund; Straße mit Tempo-20-Schild; einzelne Person sichtbar.

For forty years, the Stasi ensured the rule of the SED, the ruling party of the GDR. In its “struggle to combat the enemy,” the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) expanded its headquarters in Lichtenberg and throughout the country. In 1990, courageous citizens prevented secret police employees from destroying documents; later, they transformed Mielke’s headquarters into a space open to the public. Today, the Stasi Records Archive, part of the Federal Archives, is located here, educating the public about the Stasi’s activities and the documents it left behind.

“A monument to surveillance”: The Stasi Records Archive contains 111 kilometers of files, many of which contain personal data collected by the State Security. The exhibition “Access to Secrecy” vividly conveys the significance of this archive.

After the tour, participants have the opportunity to visit our sample file collection of reproductions of original Stasi documents. In addition to the administrative and personnel files of Stasi officers, the collection features documents on victims who have consented to the publication of their files. In this way, they are helping to provide “access to secrecy.”

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Price info: Admission is free.

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Next date:

• Date Wednesday, 25/November/2026 17:00 bis 18:00
• Venue Stasimuseum - Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte Normannenstraße
• Address Ruschestraße 103, 10365 Berlin-Lichtenberg