Museum Pankow
 Surroundings Museum Pankow |
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| Data | |
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| place |
Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg , Mühlhauser Strasse Berlin-Pankow , Heynstrasse |
| Art |
Municipal facility
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| opening | 1992 |
| operator |
Pankow district of Berlin,
Office for Further Education and Culture |
| management |
Bernt Roder
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| Website | |
| ISIL | DE-MUS-817110 |
The Museum Pankow is an institution in the Berlin district of Pankow . The focus of the museum's work is on the numerous special exhibitions that complement the permanent exhibitions at the museum locations in Prenzlauer Allee and Heynstraße .
General information
The Museum Pankow was created by merging the Prenzlauer Berg Museum , Panke Museum, Chronik Pankow and the City History Museum Weißensee in the Pankow Museum Association. Since 2012 the name Museumsverbund Pankow has been dispensed with. Museum director has been Bernt Roder since 1992.
In addition to the permanent exhibitions at both museum locations, numerous other temporary exhibitions, guided tours, readings and lectures take place throughout the district. In addition, project weeks on topics of regional history are carried out with Pankow school classes.
Locations and permanent exhibitions
Location Prenzlauer Allee
The main location of the museum is on the premises of the Sebastian Haffner Culture and Education Center in the middle of the Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg district , postal address Prenzlauer Allee 227/228. The school building on Mühlhauser Straße, built in 1886, now houses the district library and adult education center, the museum archive with reading room and the permanent exhibition of alternative designs . Special exhibitions are held regularly in the auditorium. Directly on Prenzlauer Allee is the former residence of the rector, which today serves as the administrative seat of the museum and adult education center. The former gymnasium has also been used as an exhibition hall since 2004.
Heynstrasse location
The museum is located at Heynstraße 8 in the Pankow district. In the former home of the factory owner Fritz Heyn , two bourgeois representation rooms can be viewed in their original furnishings ( stucco , painting and furniture). In addition, the stairwell, front garden, courtyard and garden are preserved and accessible. Special exhibitions and events on aspects of bourgeois life around 1900 complete the museum offer. The apartment was only discovered in the early 1970s and opened as a museum location in January 1974.
This documentation of upper-class living culture is contrasted by the exhibition in Dunckerstraße 77 in the Prenzlauer Berg district, which documents proletarian and lower-class living in Berlin around 1900.
archive
The Museum Pankow has extensive archive materials and collection items on the history of the three former districts of Prenzlauer Berg, Weißensee and Pankow. In addition, the archive users have access to a regional history reference library.
The establishment of collections on local history began on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the city of Berlin in the districts of Prenzlauer Berg and Weißensee in 1987. In Pankow, the collection dates back to 1945 thanks to Rudolf Dörriers. A newspaper cuttings collection (from 1945) and a chronicle of events in the district are kept in the archive to this day.
In 2013, more than 5,000 books, 70,000 photos, 4,237 postcards and 648 maps and plans were digitally entered in the archive's database. In addition, almost 1,500 posters can be viewed. A treasure of the archive are 150 glass negatives from Max Skladanowsky's workshop and 800 slides from 1925 from the Pankow picture center. Unfortunately, the extensive inventory of objects with up to 10,000 objects, including an English 5-hundredweight bomb, cannot yet be researched.