Using the artifacts contained in the collection we have nearly reconstructed the
infamous Checkpoint Charlie border crossing in Berlin. The Museum possesses all of the border guard log books from when the Berlin Wall collapsed on November 9, 1989 as well as the personal notes and musings of East German leader Erich Honecker. The Museum maintains entire archival collections of newspapers, diaries, and artwork. The exhibition rooms feature massive socialist realist oil paintings and important bronze busts of former leaders. We can follow the history of oppression in the Soviet Bloc through the investigation of countless secret police files and torture equipment contained in the collection. The Museum boasts thousands of socialist gifts and awards that were presented to foreign leaders and common factory workers as vehicles of ideological dissemination. It is our mission to preserve this lost political language in our efforts to learn more about a unique and extinct society.