A very good museum out of the mainstream circuits. If you are travelling around the region, just drop by and see a more authentic view of the GDR, not in less value to other museums, but a more "personal" experience. I believe that it should be created a network of museums or documentation centres about the GDR, to help promote a better study of this period of German history, without a partisan view.

A good little museum also detailing the local history of the DDR. A fun trip down memory lane for my husband.

Learning more about our history is always interesting.

A lot of work and effort goes into the museum. It's worth a visit.

Great little museum on the 6th floor above a furniture shop. Each room is dedicated to a topic (Stasi, kitchen, school, living room etc.), and there are explanatory posters on the walls. Unfortunately all information is in German only. Expect to spend between 1 and 2 hours here - and your ticket works as a discount voucher in the shop downstairs.

A really great museum, with lots of collected items from GDR history

If you like reading, then go here. It took me a while to go through the museum cause there was just so much text.

Large and very hands on... awesome experience...

One of the best museums to get a real 'hands on' experience. Even though entirely in German, we don't speak the language, so many artefacts spoke for themselves. A really comprehensive window into life for 30 years + in communist East Germany, we loved it.

I was truly impressed. This is a massive museum, beyond most I’ve seen including in Berlin. It also seemed more authentic because they didn’t have a bunch of fancy modern stuff like 3D or whatever. It is simply room after room of artifacts. Probably 50,000+ different stuff and you can touch everything. Every single drawer, cupboard etc. opens to reveal thousands more artifacts inside. I spent around 1 hour inside and had a great time for a cheap 6 euro. 1 hour was at a normal pace and not reading anything because my German isn’t that good. If you are fascinated by DDR / GDR and you read German pretty well, you could easily enjoy 2 hours inside.

I have visited DDR a few times when I was kid, and also we had and used in Poland some of the items displayed, so overall the museum hit me with a huge dose of nostalgia :) Very interesting!

Super beautiful, you have to see it. You feel transported back

Nice experience, although everything is in german, so I was a little challenged to understand everything.

Only in German, but Google Lens Translate helps a lot. Tells the story of the DDR from creation to dissolution, harrowing in parts. It has gathered numerous artefacts from the era and grouped them by decade. There is a lot of stuff (even computers!) and so the scarcity of goods and poor living conditions didn't come through strongly. A few of the displays did mention this through moving personal testimony, but it would come to life with some living history, and possibly a bit of Bauhaus... Less is more!

Very nice. A journey back in time

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Nice and interesting museum, but less to see compared to 2 others.

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A look at how things were in the east a few years back

Lovely wee museum. Great people.