Berlin subway museum
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The Berlin U-Bahn Museum opened on September 13, 1997 and is owned by the BVG. Along with Moscow and Budapest, it is the third underground museum in Europe. The Museum of the Berlin U-Bahn is housed in the electromechanical lever switchgear at the Olympia Stadium , which was in operation from 1931 to 1983. The side rooms of the signal box are exhibition rooms with numerous exhibits. In addition to occasional photo exhibitions, four to six special trips with the train types that are no longer in operation are organized every year.
history
In 1983 there were plans to demolish the no longer used signal box (it was replaced by a track plan push-button signal box), which, however, met with resistance from the ranks of old BVG employees and was not implemented.
Through the association Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berliner U-Bahn the rooms could be equipped with the collected pieces. Initially only visited by a few interested people and not yet recognized as a museum, public interest grew from year to year. The centenary of the Berlin subway in 2002 gave the museum its breakthrough. With almost 2000 visitors, the museum was overwhelmed in February 2002, since then the interest in the history of Berlin's local transport has persisted and provides 250-400 visitors on the monthly opening days (the second Saturday of each month). The Grenander weekend in November 2006 also ensured an overcrowded museum and brought the association a visitor number of 5000 interested people in 2006. In September 2007 the celebrations for the tenth anniversary of the underground museum took place, on this occasion the museum had on Open on Saturday and Sunday and welcomed 900 guests.
Club work
The association looks after the preserved historic vehicles and carries out special trips with them. The association currently has more than 60 members, some of them retired underground trainers, some of them still active employees of the BVG, and some of them local transport enthusiasts from other areas. The association has existed since February 1982, at the time as a working group within the BVB (transport company in what was then the eastern part of Berlin during the division of the city), and was registered as an association in 1992. The name of the club stems from BVB times, the club is now recognized as a non-profit organization and provides several thousand hours of voluntary work every year.
Web links
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft Berliner U-Bahn e. V. (AGU)
- U-Bahn Museum on the BVG website
- Museum on the website of the State of Berlin in the official capital city portal (Berlin.de)
- There are numerous other images on all pages.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 15 ′ 2 ″ E