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©DDR Museum, Berlin 2021
Since 2006 the interactive permanent exhibition has been inviting its visitors to discover everyday life of the DDR and to get to know the history of the former socialist state. moreabout: Permanent exhibition at DDR Museum
© DEFA Stiftung
For the 2026 Long Night of Museums, the DDR Museum is offering a varied program featuring hands-on activities, short tours, and film screenings centered on the theme of crime in the GDR. The focus is on police work as well as both spectacular and everyday... moreabout: Long Night of Museums
© SUPERIllu
For the seventh time: SUPERillu’s Heinz Jankofsky Cartoon Contest is celebrating its seventh edition this year! Heinz Jankofsky was the magazine’s staff cartoonist for many years. This year’s contest is themed “2026 – Analog Meets Digital.” The best entries... moreabout: Heinz Jankofsky Cartoon Contest
© DDR Museum
Home movies offer a rare glimpse into everyday life in the GDR—into family celebrations, vacations, and rituals beyond the official imagery. Historian Sebastian Thalheim has been conducting academic research on family and home movies for many years and,... moreabout: Everyday Life on 8mm Film
© Jan-Erik Nord
In 2024, communication designer Jan-Erik Nord drove a Trabant along Route 66 as part of a charity campaign for a seriously ill child. He had been dreaming of taking a road trip across the U.S. for years. Now, that dream had become a reality in an East... moreabout: Across the U.S. in a Trabi
© DDR Museum
When Wolf Biermann was stripped of his citizenship following his concert in Cologne on November 13, 1976, it sparked a wave of protest both at home and abroad. For many, his expatriation became an occasion to fundamentally question the unjust regime of... moreabout: “You’re putting out the fire with gasoline”
© Anke Illing
Nine-Christine Müller grew up in Thuringia after the fall of the Berlin Wall and, in the podcast she founded, explores what East German identity means today—both personally and socially. And she does so deliberately without looking back! For this evening,... moreabout: Eastward” with Marko Martin
©DDR Museum/Susanne Schleyer
The collection of conversations *The New Wall* examines tensions between East and West and explores the state of democracy. Much of what succeeded or failed in the reunification process after 1990 continues to have an impact today, shaping expectations,... moreabout: “The New Wall”
© Detlev Steinberg
East German propaganda spoke in flowery terms of a “bridge of friendship to Lenin’s homeland” when the GDR’s largest transportation project was inaugurated on October 2, 1986. East Berlin and Moscow had created one of the most important strategic links... moreabout: Secret shipments across the Baltic Sea
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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... moreabout: A country in a container
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