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N’Ostalgiemuseum

N’Ostalgiemuseum, DDR Museum in Leipzig, Germany.

The N'Ostalgiemuseum is a private museum at Nikolaistraße 28–32 in Steibs Hof, near the Nikolaikirche in Leipzig. Its rooms hold more than 12,000 everyday objects from the GDR, among them cars, dolls, records, egg slicers and Christmas pyramids. The name plays on the word Ostalgie, stressing the nostalgia inside it.

The museum grew out of a private collection that Horst Häger (1937–2011), a former steelworker, began assembling in 1990. When his Brandenburg an der Havel cellar was slated for demolition in 1998, the housing cooperative gave him rooms at Steinstraße, and the collection opened to the public in December 1999. His granddaughter Nancy Häger took it over in 2010; in 2016 she moved it from Mötzow to Nikolaistraße 28–32 in Leipzig.

The collection shows objects from everyday life in East Germany, from toys to radios and household items, giving a sense of how families lived and spent their free time. Visitors discover how people furnished their homes and which products shaped their daily routines.

The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, and the attached Cafe 1:33 offers a place to rest between viewing exhibits. Visitors can also book city tours by original Wartburg 311 cars from that era.

The name is a pun: it stresses the "Ost" (East) inside "Nostalgie", pointing to the East German everyday objects on show. The collection began with steelworker Horst Häger, who gathered items from 1990; his granddaughter Nancy Häger took it over in 2010 and moved it to Leipzig in 2016.

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1999
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1999
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