Memorial Bautzner Street Dresden

5 Richard Weeks - 3 months ago

Sadly most people will not want to go here. How much easier and more pleasant to just sit in a bar, oblivious to the horrors that history has wrought.
However it is likely to be true that those who do not know history will be doomed to repeat it.
And from that point of view it may be desirable for people to learn the lessons that places like this can teach.

5 Stephen Mew - a month ago

The Stasi detention centre museum Bautzner Str was both much better and worse than expected. In terms of better, it allows the visitor to wander around a really high proportion of the Stasi prison than you might expect. In similar prison museums, in my experience, you don't actually get to go in the cells but in this one you do and it's big. It was worse than expected in terms of English translations of the exhibits which only cover about half the museum. There is an audioguide but not in English. It's €6 entrance, although this can be part of a combi ticket with nearby DDR Weld. There are lockers and toilets. Putin used to work in a KGB building around the corner.

3 Emily Beggs - 10 months ago

For context, my friends and I speak English, but not German, as we were tourists visiting Dresden for the day. We are students, so when we saw the relatively cheap tickets, we thought why not? We read up a bit on it prior to visiting it, but it was mostly a spontaneous trip. But oh boy was it an experience! There were very minimal english descriptions (we got a paper with all the main points), but audio guides were also not available. Moreover the signs that were posted were only posted in German, thus for a tourist it might be strenuous translating required. The prison was VERY well preserved, which was amazing, but also surreal in a way! What really got me, though, was the bunker. Cold, isolated, dirty, with no English signs, I must admit it was definitely fear evoking (maybe that’s what the museum was going for?). I would rate my experience much higher, had there been more postage in English, as I feel it was really confusing. I would NOT recommend to children or people with little knowledge of Soviet/German affairs.

3 Nina van Leeuwen - 2 years ago

Museum is very interesting. Though it’s a shame that the audio-guided tour is only in German. Also the posters are all in German.

5 M. Mattanó - 3 years ago

Excellent historical place. Very well conserved and cheap entrance ticket. A part of history of DDR in Dresden. Worth a visit if you are interested in ddr and Stasi. Explanations in English available if asked for.

3 Quang Tuấn Bùi - a year ago

1 stop in the dark-tour Dresden will lead you to reveal some corner of the secret actions of Stasi and KGB

5 taschatokio93 - 5 years ago

I visited the prison in July 2017 on a day trip to Dresden to learn about the history of the GDR and the Stasi. I received an informative welcome at the entry desk and paid only 2€ for student entry fee. You are able to explore the various buildings alone, but I joined a guided tour which was led by ex-inmate Herr. Gottschalk who was imprisoned here in the 1980s under the East German regime. Hearing the history and stories behind the building from his own experiences was incredibly interesting and we received detailed answers to all our questions. I visited the two prison blocks and the perfectly-preserved offices of the ex-Stasi headquarters in Dresden.

The prison is just down the road (tram takes you direct) from The World of the GDR museum, which i also visited, which offers another experience of East Germany. They offer a combi-ticket at a reduced price to visit both the museum and the prison and student discount.