GDR Museum Time Travel (Radebeul)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GDR Museum Time Travel
DDR Museum Zeitreise Radebeul Außenansicht.jpg
Exterior view
Data
place Radebeul
Art
Everyday life in the GDR
opening May 1, 2006
Number of visitors (annually) 40,000
management
Hans-Joachim Stephan
ISIL DE-MUS-790614

The GDR Museum Zeitreise was a private permanent exhibition on life in the GDR . The museum was located in the Saxon town of Radebeul , directly on Meißner Straße , but at Wasastraße 50. It existed from 2006 to 2016 and was located in the former headquarters of VEB Kraftwerkanlagenbau , a building in the style of socialist architecture. The exhibition extended over four floors with over 3500 m². The inventory included 60,000 exhibition items and 140 vehicles from the GDR. The museum showed the largest permanent exhibition on life in the GDR. For a long time the museum was visited by around 60,000 guests a year. In 2015 the number of visitors fell to 40,000.

Due to the decline in visitors and a high annual rent of 226,000 euros, the museum had to file for bankruptcy on April 7th, 2016 ; the standard bankruptcy proceedings have been running since July 1st. The rental debts at that time amounted to around 60,000 euros.

On September 15, 2016 it was announced that the retail entrepreneur Peter Simmel was planning to make 1,500 square meters in the high-rise building on Albertplatz available for the museum exhibits. Simmel runs a shopping center there and rents out commercial space. He bought the exhibits from the GDR Museum Zeitreise Wasaparkausstellungsgesellschaft mbH for 50,000 euros . The opening in Dresden as Die Welt der DDR with 60,000 exhibits took place on January 29, 2017, and there is also a GDR shop.

The building in Radebeul built over the former property of the chamber singer Lorenzo Riese , who lived in Radebeul around 1900, as well as the confluence of the Riesestraße named after him into Meißner Straße.

exhibition

The museum intended to depict everyday life in the GDR without any political judgment. Key data and an industrial history related to individual exhibits were also part of the exhibition. Everyday life in the GDR was presented over 40 "periods of time" with objects of daily use, facilities and their organization, including many loans.

Automobiles and public transport from brands such as Simson , MZ and IFA were exhibited on the ground floor . These were vehicles from the former Dresden Automobile Museum . On the second floor there were exhibits from the economy, the organization of the companies and the working conditions. The third floor was dedicated to the subject of living, leisure, sport and culture, in this part objects on the subject of WBS 70 , prefabricated buildings and wall units were on display. On the fourth floor there was an exhibition about the lost state system of the GDR.

In addition to the four floors of the exhibition, a hall with up to 400 seats provided the framework of a GDR culture house for various events. A gastronomic experience also conveyed impressions from this time.

Others

In 2011, actor Tom Hanks visited the museum. He was in Saxony to film " Cloud Atlas ".

Web links

Commons : DDR Museum Zeitreise  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c GDR Museum in Radebeul records a drastic decline in visitors . In: Saxon newspaper . March 11, 2016 ( online [accessed March 11, 2016]).
  2. The museum at focus.de
  3. Anna Hoben: The Conservator . In: Saxon newspaper . January 2, 2014 ( paid online [accessed January 3, 2014]).
  4. ^ Peter Redlich: DDR Museum goes bankrupt . In: Saxon newspaper . July 9, 2016 ( online [accessed July 13, 2016]).
  5. ^ Peter Redlich: New deadline for the GDR Museum . In: Saxon newspaper . July 12, 2016 ( online [accessed July 13, 2016]).
  6. Peter Redlich: DDR Museum moves to Dresden . In: Saxon newspaper . September 16, 2016 ( online [accessed September 16, 2016]).
  7. The museum on the website of the city of Radebeul ( Memento from July 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 13.1 ″  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 10.6 ″  E