This touchy-feely museum does an insightful and entertaining job of pulling back the iron curtain on daily life in socialist East Germany. You'll learn how kids were put through collective potty training, engineers earned little more than farmers, and everyone, it seems, went on nudist holidays. A perennial crowd-pleaser among the historic objects on display is a Trabi, the tinny East German standard car – sit in it to take a virtual spin around an East Berlin neighbourhood.

The more sinister sides of daily life, including the chronic supply shortages and surveillance by the Stasi (secret police), are also addressed.

Transportation

  • sbahn: Hackescher Markt
  • bus: 100, 200, TXL

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