The "Active Archive: GDR" is an extensive archive of GDR art. It comprises a library with over 3,000 publications, a picture archive with about 10,000 illustrations, systematized according to iconographic themes from A for “Arbeitsbild” (work picture) to Z for “Zukunft” (future) and a press documentation on the reception of art, architecture and urban planning of the GDR in German-language newspapers and magazines.