In 1953, the "Museum für Deutsche Geschichte" in East Berlin, which was responsible for the site, decided to install a "Museum of the Resistance Movement" in the large building—not focussing on the history of the camp but only dedicated to the German communist resistance movement beginning in the Weimar Republic. Protests by both national and international visitors caused the exhibition to soon be shut down and reworked.
In 1963 a cinema and lecture hall were installed in the left wing of the building. An artistically designed "Honorary Room of Nations" was created in the central portion of the building, in which individual fighters belonging to the camp resistance were honoured.
Construction began in 1985 on a bomb-proof depot for the "protection of cultural patrimony in case of armed conflict."
Today in the right wing, one finds rooms with models that are used for tours of the site.
