Ostrockmuseum Kröpelin, rock music museum in Kröpelin, Germany

Ostrockmuseum Kröpelin opened on 3 July 2015 in a single floor of a building it shares with the town library and town museum. Because space is limited, the roughly five themed rooms each take one topic rather than following a chronology: a recreated DDR record shop, stage and studio equipment, a culture official's office, a chronicle, and the Dorfrock festival. The layout was devised with interior design and media students from Wismar.

The museum grew from a Berlin-based association's collection that sought a permanent home for their artifacts, officially opening in 2015. This establishment marks the recognition of East German rock as an important part of the nation's cultural history.

The museum is organized into five themed rooms rather than a chronological route: a record shop, stage and recording studio, the office of the SED culture official, a chronicle, and Dorfrock. In the record shop, a wall mural shows the queue outside the shop at Kröpeliner Straße 13 in Rostock in the mid-1980s when sought-after LPs went on sale.

The museum occupies one floor, so the exhibition is arranged by theme rather than chronologically. A single ticket also admits visitors to the town museum in the same building. The town library is administered alongside the museum, but the sources do not describe a shared entrance.

A dedicated section reveals how government officials of the Socialist party controlled and shaped music production behind the scenes, a detail often overlooked in other venues. This display shows the political constraints that artists worked within while creating their sound.