DDR Museum Pirna
 Entrance area of the museum |
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| Data | |
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| place | Pirna |
| Art |
Everyday life in the GDR
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| opening | July 16, 2005 |
| Number of visitors (annually) | 30,000 (2013) |
| management |
Conny Kaden
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| Website | |
The DDR Museum Pirna is a privately run museum in Pirna in the district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains .
exhibition
In a permanent exhibition the museum gives insights into life in the GDR up to 1989. On two floors with a total area of 2,000 square meters, 120,000 exhibits (as of April 2013) are shown in changing exhibitions. The exhibition includes a fully furnished shop , a kindergarten, a classroom, an infirmary and various vehicles as well as works by the photographer Hartmut Schorsch ( FF included ). Since May 2011, the old Dresden “ Lottchen children's tram ” has been on the outside of the museum . A rarity is a pacemaker from the 1960s and a dishwasher .
Typical GDR classroom
Cash in consumption
Sports room
Kindergarten room
Dishwasher from VEB Elektro Installation Oberlind , an operation of the VEB Elektrogerätewerk Suhl
history
The exhibition shows the collection begun in 1993 by Conny Kaden. The museum was opened on July 16, 2005 on 250 m². In its first year of existence, it had almost 10,000 visitors. Since March 31, 2007, the museum has been located at Rottwerndorfer Straße 45 in Pirna in an old barracks of the former NVA pioneer battalion with 700 m² of exhibition space. The second floor of the building has also been in use since April 2009, expanding the area to 1500 m². In 2009, the Museum celebrated the 60th anniversary of the founding of the GDR and with an address of Erich Honecker- - Doubles and more than 4,000 visitors. In 2010, a 2500 m² solar system was built on the roof of the museum. In 2013 almost 30,000 visitors came to the museum.
The museum has already welcomed some personalities as guests, such as B. Thomas Barth , captain of the GDR peace voyage selection or puppet doctor pill (alias Urte Blankenstein ).
Sponsorship
The museum is financed exclusively by private funds and does not receive any funding or support from the city, state or other institutions.
swell
- ↑ a b Sächsische Zeitung: Why contemporary witnesses expire April 1, 2014
- ↑ Bild.de: Minister, why are GDR museums being bullied? dated April 4, 2013
- ↑ Bild.de: Nobody came closer to the Honeckers from May 4th 2010
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung: The photographer of the mighty and beautiful from May 8, 2010
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung: Lottchen floats into the museum from November 22, 2010
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung: Small rarity in the GDR Museum from April 28, 2011
- ^ A b Sächsische Zeitung: Reform zeal in the GDR Museum of December 24, 2013
- ↑ Chronicle of the Museum ( Memento from August 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung: Honecker on a short visit on October 8, 2007
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung: DDR Museum expands on Labor Day of April 24, 2009
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung: Honi gets off the stretcher on October 17, 2009 in Pirna on the 60th anniversary of the GDR
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung: DDR Museum gets Pirna's largest solar system on the roof from April 28, 2010
- ↑ Sächsische Zeitung: Cycling legend digs out old stories from July 17, 2013
- ^ Sächsische Zeitung: Ms. Puppet Doctor visits the museum on April 30, 2013
Web links
- DDR Museum Pirna
- DDR Museum Outlook on YouTube , Interview with Conny Kaden on the 5th birthday of the DDR Museum Pirna, Pirna-TV 2010
- Hartmut Schorsch show in the GDR Museum on YouTube , Pirna TV 2010
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 37.5 ″ N , 13 ° 56 ′ 36.2 ″ E