Experience the GDRMuseums, diners, meets
Out of the kitchen: places where you can see, touch and taste everyday life in the GDR. From a museum with a prefab apartment to a broiler bar on the Baltic coast.
Where to?
Hands-on museums, restaurants serving solyanka and meets that smell of two-stroke. Each list can be filtered by state, city and type.
GDR museums
23 GDR museums and exhibitions, from prefab apartments to Trabants.
Including DDR Museum, Museum Utopie und Alltag, Museumswohnung WBS 70 …
See allGDR cult restaurants today
13 places serving solyanka, broiler chicken and GDR flair, with a map.
Including Konnopke’s Imbiß, Sphere im Fernsehturm, Grillstube Broiler im Hotel Neptun …
See allGDR events and meets
22 dates: Simson, Trabant and Wartburg meets, GDR camping, exhibitions and comedy.
Including Simson-Treffen Suhl (STS), DDR-Camping Pütnitz …
See allTop 10 places to go
Ten places to start with, a mix of museums, restaurants and meets. The pick is ours; everything else is in the lists.
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DDR Museum
Walk through a prefab apartment, try the Trabant driving simulator, open the cupboards and drawers. This is a hands-on museum.
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Konnopke’s Imbiß
This currywurst stand under the elevated railway on Schönhauser Allee has been here since 1930. In 1960 it brought currywurst to East Berlin. It still comes with ketchup made to the family recipe, in several levels of heat.
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Museum Utopie und Alltag
Formerly the Documentation Center of Everyday Culture of the GDR. Permanent exhibition “Alltag: DDR”, plus a collection of around 170,000 objects from household goods to furniture.
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Simson-Treffen Suhl (STS)
Since 2016, Simson fans have been coming to the town where their mopeds were built. The highlight is the big ride-out with thousands of two-wheelers through Suhl, past the former factory.
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Sphere im Fernsehturm
In the TV Tower on Alexanderplatz, opened in 1969, the restaurant turns slowly at a height of 207 meters. Since June 2025 it has been called “Sphere Tim Raue”, with solyanka and Königsberger Klopse meatballs on the menu. Tables come with a restaurant ticket.
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Museumswohnung WBS 70
A three-room apartment from 1986 in a prefab block of the WBS 70 type, 61 square meters, furnished with furniture and household goods of the time.
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August Horch Museum Zwickau
The Trabant exhibition in the town where the car was built: from the P 50 to the last one, which left the line in 1991.
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Grillstube Broiler im Hotel Neptun
The broiler bar in Hotel Neptun, which opened in 1971, is still a Baltic coast favourite. Grilled broiler chicken by the quarter, half or whole, with French fries and sauces made to the house recipe.
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DDR-Camping Pütnitz
Camping the old way on the Saaler Bodden lagoon: only vehicles and accommodation from GDR times are allowed, from a Trabant with a roof tent to a Qek caravan. Guests can visit the museum halls.
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Milchbar Pinguin
Leipzig has met for ice cream and coffee at this milk bar by the market square since 1964. Today it has more than 30 homemade ice cream flavours, large sundaes, cake and breakfast.
Next dates
What’s next. Dates can change, so check with the organiser before you set off.
- Exhibition and talkAlltag auf 8 Millimetern: Privatfilme aus der DDR November 25, 2026, 6 pm · DDR Museum, conference room
- Exhibition and talkMit dem Trabi durch die USA December 9, 2026 · DDR Museum, conference room
- Stage and musicDDR-Winterzauber: Die große DDR-Comedy-Show December 26, 2026 – January 10, 2027, 6:30 pm · Theater an der Spree, Köpenick
- Parts marketOLDTEMA – Oldtimer- und Teilemarkt January 16–17, 2027 · Messe Erfurt (Erfurt exhibition centre)
There are also 5 exhibitions and shows running right now. All 22 dates
More best-ofs
Quick picks: restaurants with a long history, museums for grey days and next year’s meets.
Open since GDR days
- Konnopke’s Imbiß Berlin
- Café Sibylle Berlin
- Mokka Milch (früher Mokka-Milch-Eisbar) Berlin
- Sphere im Fernsehturm Berlin
- Milchbar Pinguin Leipzig
- Grillstube Broiler im Hotel Neptun Rostock and Warnemünde
Open in winter too
- DDR Museum Berlin-Mitte
- Museum Utopie und Alltag Eisenhüttenstadt
- Ostrockmuseum Kröpelin Kröpelin
- N'Ostalgie-Museum Leipzig Leipzig
- DDR-Museum Thale Thale
- DDR-Museum Pforzheim Pforzheim
- and 9 more
Meets through the year
By state
Where there is something to see, eat and celebrate. Each state page also covers the local cooking.
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania5 museums · 2 restaurants · 5 dates
- Berlin5 museums · 7 restaurants · 4 dates
- Brandenburg3 museums · 2 dates
- Saxony-Anhalt2 museums · 4 dates
- Saxony7 museums · 4 restaurants · 9 dates
- Thuringia5 dates
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