Stasi Museum
The Stasi Museum—founded around the year 1990 and known in German as the Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte Normannenstraße—puts you inside the machinery of East Germany’s state security system. The center is the preserved office and working quarters of Erich Mielke, the head of the Stasi, the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, in the former headquarters on Ruschestraße near Frankfurter Allee. What makes this site more than a collection of relics is how it was kept in civic hands. The museum is operated by ASTAK e.V.—Antistalinistische Aktion Berlin-Normannenstraße—an organization founded by civil rights activists in Berlin in 1990, with an explicit aim to collect, preserve, document, rehabilitate, and exhibit evidence and research materials about East Germany’s political system. In 2010, the German government announced it intended to take over the Stasimuseum, triggering a dispute involving ASTAK and local and national authorities. …
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