DAY TRIP. to The Museum of Utopia and Everyday Life (Eisenhüttenstadt)

Visit to Museum and walk around the town and sculpture park

• sunset view over the Oder.
  Meet Time 9:10 Ostkreuz Platfrom 1
  Duration: Whole Day.

For any of you free in the weekdays this January, here is a mid-week expedition to an interesting town just an hour and a half away. We will walk round the town, visit the Museum of Utopia and Everyday Life and climb up to a viewing point to watch sunset over the Oder.

Eisenhüttenstadt is a town that takes you back to the Utopian core of the DDR. The new town was built as an all-of-a-piece modern ideal for the workers at the local steel works. The population climbed by a factor of 5 from the 1950s to 1990, but has since more than halved.
Lots of architectural interest from the 1950s and Plattenbau DDR styles. Its also a town packed with sculptures, murals, and other public art. See here for details. And here for an map of the town

Meet on the platform 1 at Ostkreuz station at 9:10.
Or just get on the RE1 to Frankfurt Oder anywhere in Berlin and meet us on the train that departs Ostkreuz at 9:16.
Walking: This is not really a walk, but Eisenhüttenstadt is spread out, so if we do the full Rundgang of all the sites on foot it is about 8 km. - lots of breaks and options to skip for those who dont want to do this.