The museum on Normanenstrasse is housed in the old Stasi HQ, & somewhat off the main track.. However the documents and information contained are well worth the visit. It is only in German & there is a rather overwhelming amount of info. but the museum is fascinating. It needs a general overhaul in terms of marketing but just to be... more

Eerie sense that we were being watched in the Stasi Museum. After all there were 40,000 members of the East German Secret Police and another 170,000 paid citizen informers. Spying on one another was a cottage industry. The horrors of interrogation were seen & felt in the Stasi whose cold stark rooms reflected the Communist occupants. East Germany technology long... more

We thought this was unmissable. No tourists when we were there only some german school children. The brillant thing about it is it there aren't many exibits. It hasn't been tarted up, messed around with, put in exibit cases. We had the rooms to ourselve to walk freely around and felt a bit like the stasi could walk back in... more

My wife and I have just returned from a 5-day first-time trip to Berlin, which we quite enjoyed but it could have been so much better. We have two observations. First there are a number of significant venues that provide inadequate or no translation into English. Of course, one option would be to learn German - but that would be... more

Although it can take a bit of finding, it's worth a visit. Not a lot of exhibits, but the building(s) and the atmosphere make it an experience. Faceless architecture, silent receptionist on the paydesk( only a nominal entrance fee) and grey corridors. There are various exhibits in display cases - secret camera's, bugging devices and rooms with displays of press... more