Stasi Museum

Stasi Museum
Stasi-Museum
The main entrance to the Stasi Museum
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Established1990 (1990)
LocationGermany
Coordinates52°30′52″N 13°29′15″E / 52.51444°N 13.48750°E / 52.51444; 13.48750
Visitors100,000 in 2017[1]
Websitestasi-museum.de

The Stasi Museum (also known in German as the Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte Normannenstraße)[2] is a research and memorial centre concerning the political system of the former East Germany. It is located in the Lichtenberg locality of Berlin, in the former headquarters of the Stasi (officially the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit), on Ruschestraße, near Frankfurter Allee and U-Bahn station Magdalenenstraße.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference visitors was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Haus 1 des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit in Berlin – ein Zentrum der Aufarbeitung kommunistischer Diktatur in Deutschland" [Outline of the concept of the museum] (PDF). stasi-museum.de (in German). p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2011.