Minsk Museum

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Building of the former Minsk restaurant, west elevation, 2010

The Minsk Museum is to be set up as a museum for contemporary art in Potsdam . Until its opening, which is planned for autumn 2021, the building that houses the former Minsk restaurant on Potsdamer Brauhausberg will be renovated by the Hasso Plattner Foundation of the industrialist and art patron Hasso Plattner and upgraded for museum operation.

With its focus on contemporary art, the museum is to keep its exhibition focus on works of GDR art and contemporary artists .

history

The building was built and from 1971 to 1977 as a folkloristic Nationality restaurant of Belarusian cuisine farmed. The name Minsk is an expression of a partnership between the Potsdam district and the Minsk district in the Soviet Union , which is why a Café Potsdam opened in Minsk . Experts from Minsk were also involved in the interior design and artistic design . The restaurant had 190 indoor and 120 terrace seats and was a popular meeting place for excursions, especially in the 1980s. The building is an important testimony to GDR architecture , the architects were Karl-Heinz Birkholz and Wolfgang Müller.

The restaurant was run as a Café Minsk until 2000. In the following period, the building was no longer used and increasingly fell into disrepair until it was given its new use as an art museum and was to be renovated in 2019. It narrowly escaped demolition in the mid-2010s.

literature

  • Architecture guide GDR - Potsdam district, Verlag für Bauwesen, 1981 edition, p. 59

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b New Museum for Contemporary Art from 2021. In: Deutschlandfunk. January 2, 2020, accessed January 3, 2020 .
  2. ^ The former terrace restaurant Minsk Potsdam on the Brauhausberg. In: Berlins Taiga :: Berlin city tours, Potsdam city tours and much more. April 2, 2018, accessed June 7, 2020 (German).
  3. ↑ a b c With the "Minsk" the GDR disappears from Potsdam. In: Der Tagesspiegel. April 19, 2018, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Minsk is to become the "symbol of east modernism". In: PNN. March 28, 2019, accessed November 21, 2019 .

Coordinates: 52 ° 23 ′ 19.1 ″  N , 13 ° 3 ′ 51 ″  E