We visited the Lenzen Museum.
One thing I'll never forget was the currator repeatedly telling us that the shelves in the businesses, especially grocery stores were barren much of the time...commercial food items were scarce.
The pictures below show shelves full of food and other items but that was to show what the various items existed from 1946 through 1990.

Various signs kept in the museum for display after the GDR regime ended.
3rd sign: "border only open to authorized personnel"
"enter and drive across forbidden"

Cobbler's bench and worksite
Remember that these early 1900s occupations continued on until 1990 in many cases...the economy of the GDR did not make it possible to upgrade to newer technologies, nor were those technologies allowed in from the west.

Kitchen items

Phonograph & transportation - again what many of the East German people had up to 1990.

Memorabilia & transportation

Map of some type - I don't remember anymore from 1997

Living room

Reading books

Poster of woman operating a combine "socialistic state of the workers and farmers"
There were no individual famers.
They were part of the communal farming operation, based on the Russian socialist version of agriculture.

Bathroom

Grocery store - AGAIN, the currator emphasized the shelves would have been barren much of the time during the GDR regime.

Picture in the museum of some of the fencing and gated areas.

Picture in the museum showing another view of the fencing and guard towers.

Picture in the museum showing the removal of the fencing after 1990.