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DDR Museum

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. Perennial crowd-pleasers include taking a virtual spin in a Trabi, the tinny East German standard car, and nosing around a GDR flat fully furnished with original objects.

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

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