DDR Museum - Die Welt der DDR (Dresden, Saxony)
Last year I went to do a week trip in Dresden and Leipzig.
While visiting Dresden I stumbled upon a street advertisement for the DDR Museum and I wanted to educate myself and my partner a bit about german history and get some nostalgic impressions about the east part.
They museum features many things from east germany during the time when germany was split in west/east between 1949 and 1990.
Like computers:
Vehicles:
Furniture and scenarios like hair saloon, doctor, school:
And technology:
It was totally worth a visit, we even recieved a free russian style soup at the exit.
Let me know, if you know a thing or two about the DDR too.
Kittelschürze
There are some funny stories about the "laughable technology" of the DDR and how the economy there is so bad.
My favorite is the one about lamps (as in the small things that make the light).
I hope you know about the Phoebus cartel. If not, look it up.
Thanks to that all lamps only had a life time of 1000 hours (it took quite some research to prevent them going longer).
But of course in the DDR you would not waste resources (not that way at least). When the NARWA lamp makers came to a western Germany technology exhibition with a 6000 hour lamp, they were laughed off by their competition.
"Nobody will buy that (to sell to customers). The people would not buy new lamps!"
In fact my grandmother still had a NARWA lamp in her closet when she died in 2013, and the one in the kitchen broke just two years earlier.
The other story is about FCKW (German abbreviation). The stuff making holes in the ozon layer.
The world-leading firms (Western Germany) producing fridges said it was impossible to make a fridge without FCKW.
And then a small fridge maker literally out from the woods in Eastern Germany, which was already marked for closing down in 1991, came and said: Uh, no, not really. Give us a few weeks.
And lo and behold, this little communistic company saved the ozon layer!
Wow thanks for sharing, I thought the lamp story especially is quite fun to know.
There are many fascinating facts about the DDR.
Interessant, muß ich mir für den nächsten Dresden-Besuch vormerken.
Ein Bekannter eines Bekannten hat Polizeiausstattung der DDR gesammelt und diese vor ein paar Jahren einem kleinen Museum in Rosenheim zur Verfügung gestellt.
Falls wir dort wieder einen Fieldday machen, ist sicher eine Besichtigung möglich.
Ist aufjedenfall einen Besuch wert.
Das Museum ist liebevoll eingerichtet und das Personal war auch sehr freundlich. 🙂
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