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Is this Europe's best secret museum?
Frizzell, Nell http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/aug/04/ddr-nostalgie-museum-garzin-germany-attic
Publisher: The Guardian
Date Written: 04/08/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
In a small German town, a museum dedicated to life in the GDR – with everything from crank-handled calculators to Communist doilies – exists, virtually undiscovered, in one man's attic.
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The joy of the DDR & Nostalgie Museum is the sense of ordered chaos. There are gas-powered irons sitting below Boney M records of Rasputin; children's sewing machines beside portraits of Lenin; bottles of original DDR booze called things like Baltic Vodka and Kirsch mit Whisky beside dress patterns and door chains. There are tights, buckets, reel-to-reel tape recorders, swimming costumes, East German motorbikes, huge crank-handled calculators, shuttlecocks, unopened glass jars of spaghetti in tomato sauce, Rene's old Free German Youth uniform, face creams, and a Communist doily embroidered with the words National People’s Army.
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