Stasimuseum

Welcome to the biggest espionage organization 's headquarters. English tours at 15:00. You will be thrilled about the details of the interrogation and the psychological pressure on Stasi's suspects!

Read up on the background of Stasi/MfS online before coming (like Wikipedia), so you can skip most of Floor 1 to save time. Then, head straight to Floor 2, followed by Floor 3.

Highly recommended. Visit on Saturday afternoon for a free tour in English at 3pm. Our guide was amazing - knowledgable and enthusiastic. A brilliant experience.

This place is very interesting, calculate 1,5-2 hours here and get the audio guide. Café only accepts cash but entrance accepts card payments.

Never knew concept if ‘gaslighting’ was used to control the East German population. Really interesting museum shining a light on an unpleasant period or recent German history.

Sometimes you wonder what people do to eachother. Make sure to take the time to read stuff, there you get the actual stories

Stasi HQ that has been left in its 1989 condition – eerie and fascinating. The exhibitions offer great insights into the workings of the Stasi, although some of it is only in German.

This is the former headquarters of the Ministry for State Security, where you'll get to see a great collection of spy materials and interesting items on espionage .

Very interesting museum about the security agency of the former German Democratic Republic. See the hidden cameras , hear about the ways they gathered information about citizens etc.!

Really interesting museum that captures the darker side of the DDR well . Mielke's office is kept how it was.

Really interesting exhibitions , almost like traveling back in time. Crazy to think that the Stasi were so far reaching and active not that long ago.

Now all the exhibitions are in English as well , I visited here August 2016.

Floor 1 is a bit dry, with mostly text plaques and photos, which easily could've been a long Wikipedia article. Floor 2 and 3 are much more interesting, displaying artefacts from the time period.

Fascinating insight in communist era history and surveillance in East Germany under the Soviets

Went direct to the 3rd floor, the most interesting stuff and then back to the others; entrance is a bit hidden

Much better than DDR museum . Covers both Stasi history and DDR sociopolitical history.

Start with the 3rd floor! It's way more interesting than the two lower floors.

Amazing museum , make sure you check out the Stasi archives next door too

Very interesting exhibition about the secret police .

Look for the red leather briefcase, truly the highlight of a very remarkable exposition

The impressive place with a strong GDR spirit.

They don’t take cards. Fascinating museum that really takes you on a journey of the Stasi

Very interesting. Everything in English as well !

Costs an extra euro for permission to take photos - but it's worth it. Fascinating museum .

Make sure you attend one of the free guided tours .

Nice insight into the history of secret police in ddr

Do you want to know how was it to live during totality? Just visit this museum !

Very informative. Only the first house (out of about 20) took about 2 hours to view .

Fantastic museum made great by the location within the stasi complex

Great experience of this unforgettable horror times.

Incredible museum located at the former Ministry of National Security. If you have a Berlin Citytour card, you get 1 EUR off. Read more

Found the Stasi prison much better but interesting visit

Really good and intense

The intimidating techniques demystified!!!!

Only cash is accepted here. You also need to pay €1 to take photos.

Absolutely fantastic and terrible

Authenticity .

Intriguing, makes you realize again the importance of freedom of speech and thought

The exhibition isn't very interesting, especially if you don't speak German, but the top two floors with old spying gear and the Stasi director's own headquarters are great.

Very interesting place, esprecially 2nd floor with Erich Mielke's office . Exposition language is german, lack of english translation. Entrace +1 euro if you want permission to take photos.

Amazing place

Depressing badness

go there!

The exhibition don't show much about surveillance, English translations are scarce, many empty rooms and €1 is asked to take pictures of mostly uninteresting stuff. Very disappointed. Do sth else.

Beeindruckend und bedrückend, insbesondere wenn man als Kind des Westens mit Betroffenen der Stasi-Zeit das Museum besucht. Schade, dass keine Verhörzellen zu sehen sind.

Leider fällt mir der Name nicht mehr ein, die die sehr emotionale Führung gemacht hat, aber sie ist zu empfehlen, da hier auch aus eigenen Erfahrungen des Lebens in der DDR eingebracht wurden

Tolles, interessantes Museum . Man bekommt einen guten Eindruck, wie pompös die DDR Staatsmänner residiert/regiert haben. Highlight ist natürlich das noch original eingerichtete Büro Erich Mielkes.

Mooie collectie aan spionage apparatuur van net na WWII tot aan het einde van de Berlijnse muur. Een must wanneer je Berlijn bezoekt!

Très intéressant, bon audioguide . Le parcours est logique et bien pensé. Très documenté. Lieu impressionnant

Super museo , de visita obligatoria para los que todavia creen en alguna ideologia. Ahora con guias en español!!!!