Middle museum
 Middle museum |
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Berlin 
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District Office Mitte of Berlin, Office for Further Education and Culture, Department of Art, Culture and History
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Sigrid Schulze, Kerstin Sittner-Hinz
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-232415 |
The Mitte Museum in Berlin is the regional history museum of the Berlin district of Mitte and, as a communal institution for history work and culture of remembrance, is supported by the Office for Further Education and Culture, Department of Art, Culture and History, the District Office of Berlin. The museum building at Pankstrasse 47 in Berlin-Gesundbrunnen has been renovated and modernized since 2016 and reopened in 2019 with barrier-free access .
The focus of the museum work is on researching and presenting the local history of the Mitte district. Objects from everyday Berlin culture as well as objects and documents relevant to local history are collected and exhibited.
The building is a historical monument. It was built from 1865–1866 as the 32nd community school according to a design by city building officer Adolf Gerstenberg and master builder Petersen, it was the first public building in the suburbs of Wedding and Gesundbrunnen incorporated in 1861, today it is one of the oldest surviving school buildings in Berlin.
history
The Mitte Museum was created in 2001 as a result of the Berlin administrative reform and emerged from the merger of the three formerly independent local museums in Mitte , Tiergarten and Wedding .
Heimatmuseum Berlin-Mitte
The institution was founded in 1987 as the “Heimatgeschichtliches Kabinett” for the 750th anniversary in what was then East Berlin's Mitte district of Berlin. This step was inspired by a “local history interest group”, which had already dealt with local history issues in the district for several years . The exhibition rooms were located on the ground floor of building no.23 on Sophienstrasse, which had been redesigned into a Handwerkergasse for the city's anniversary. After the reunification and the takeover of archive rooms in Torstrasse, the name was changed in 1992 to “Heimatmuseum Berlin-Mitte”. The museum stayed in its original location until 1997. The move to the Palais am Festungsgraben - behind the Neue Wache Unter den Linden - was again renamed “Museum Mitte von Berlin”. The museum carried this name until the district merger and the subsequent integration into the new "Mitte Museum" of the new greater district of Mitte. Until 2009, the “Mitte Museum am Festungsgraben” held thematic changing exhibitions in these rooms .
Tiergarten local history museum
Like other district museums in the former West Berlin , the Tiergarten Heimatmuseum was created on the basis of the civic engagement of a local history initiative. The “Working Group for the History of the Tiergarten eV” was founded as early as 1961 with the aim of researching and presenting the local past. A first historical collection was also created. In 1984 the “Heimatarchiv Tiergarten” was opened at Zwinglistraße 2, which three years later as the “Heimatmuseum Tiergarten” was able to use several exhibition rooms in the Brothers Grimm House, Turmstraße 75. As a result of a series of “building block exhibitions”, a permanent exhibition on the history of the district was developed, which was shown until the museum was closed in 2004.
Wedding home museum
The Wedding Heritage Museum emerged in 1989 from the former Wedding Heritage Archive. There were first plans to establish a municipal historical archive in the district as early as the 1930s. In 1951, the seven hundredth anniversary of the documentary mention of the village of Wedding was celebrated with a large city festival, accompanied by a historical exhibition. The author of the accompanying book was the teacher and local researcher Bruno Stephan. After the Wedding Home Archive - as a department of the district art office - was opened in 1952, he remained the director of this facility for 20 years. From the beginning he built up a regional history collection. After the exhibition on the history of the Wedding district in 1987, on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of Berlin, the Wedding Home Archive was expanded to become a regional history museum. In 1989 it was officially opened as the “Heimatmuseum Wedding” at Pankstraße 47, the current location of the Mitte Museum. Today the Mitte Museum is located here.
Exhibitions
The basis for exhibitions in the museum is your own collection. A distinction is mainly made between permanent exhibitions and special exhibitions . Additionally shown traveling exhibitions .
collection
The collection contains objects that provide information about the past and present of the Mitte district and its everyday culture . They come from people who lived or worked here and from companies that were or are based here. In addition, there are objects from the history of communal and military administration ( district offices , NVA , allies ).
The art collection contains works of graphics (approx. 800 sheets), painting (approx. 500 works), sculpture and small sculptures (approx. 30 works) and the arts and crafts . The works come primarily from artists who live in the district. Much of the work was acquired for the building of municipal art collections. Another group came into being as part of the artist promotion of the Department of Culture of the Berlin City Council ( GDR ).
Library
The scientific special library is a reference library and comprises around 15,000 titles. The focus of the collection lies in the past and present of the Mitte district and its districts. In addition to publishing works, company, association and anniversary publications, district official publications, school books, exhibition catalogs and also works on cultural history are collected. This inventory is supplemented by a collection of regional weekly newspapers and a long-standing press evaluation apparatus for the district's history and project-related documentation . The holdings are currently being digitally indexed , which are largely systematically and alphabetically accessible through conventional catalogs.
Museum education
The educational museum offers are aimed at children, young people or adults and offer open events such as city tours , but also closed events such as school workshops . A museum educational program is provided for school classes and youth groups. Other offers are aimed at special target groups such as senior citizens, migrants ( intercultural offers) An important element of the museum's work is the cooperation with local historical initiatives and associations in today's districts .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ website. Office for Continuing Education and Culture, January 5, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2017 .
- ↑ website. History Department, accessed on July 27, 2017 .
- ↑ press release. District Office Mitte of Berlin, March 17, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Middle Museum: Invitation to the opening of the exhibition. July 30, 2019, accessed April 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Entry in the Berlin State Monument List
- ↑ press release. District Office Mitte of Berlin, August 26, 2016, accessed on July 27, 2017 .