GDR Museum Thale
The GDR Museum Thale is a museum in Thale in Saxony-Anhalt . The exhibition is primarily devoted to living and everyday culture in the GDR .
location
It is located in Thale on the sixth floor of a GDR administration building built in 1973 at Steinbachstrasse 5a.
exhibition
The exhibition in the privately operated museum covers the period from the founding of the GDR in 1949 to its end with German reunification in 1990. The 14 exhibition rooms are arranged along a long hallway that is designed as a timeline of GDR history. Five exhibition rooms are dedicated to the 1950s and 1960s and deal with the topics of war refugees / displaced persons , state security , kitchen, bedroom and living room furnishings. Another four rooms present living rooms, kitchens and bedrooms from the 1960s and 1970s, as well as home improvement from that time. A large room displays living room and kitchen furnishings, as well as games from the 1970s and 1980s. One room is dedicated to the turning point and peaceful revolution in the GDR .
Three exhibition rooms are devoted to specific topics across time. There you will find exhibitions on parties and mass organizations of the GDR, office communication, television and radio sets, holidays and schooling in the GDR.
There is also a canteen and a screening room.
history
The floor on which the museum is housed was used in the GDR as a chemistry laboratory for enamel research on container and apparatus construction at the Thale iron and steel works . After the plant was closed in 1992, the floor was empty. The building equipment from the GDR era remained unchanged. In 2000, the Müller family opened a furniture store on the lower floors of the building. The family then decided to found the GDR Museum and to accommodate it on the empty 6th floor. The museum opened on May 1, 2011, at 2 p.m. after a previous move in May.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 55.9 " N , 11 ° 1 ′ 56.7" E