100 years Museum Spandau

with guided tours & discussion series as well as workshops & readings for kids

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• Zeughaus Zitadelle Spandau – Bleistift auf Papier

Monday, May 12, 1924, was museum weather: At 15 degrees and rain, district mayor Martin Stritte opened the Spandau local history museum in the large parterre room of the town hall. In the decades that followed, the museum not only moved several times until it was able to develop properly in the citadel. It also grew with its tasks, which it shares with all museums - collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting and communicating. The collection and exhibition space grew steadily, as did the variety of topics and the demands on the communication of history.

In 2024, we are not only celebrating a milestone birthday, but also the development from a museum of local history, which today certainly seems dusty, to a unique space for exchanging ideas about origins and the future, cultural assets and life stories, new discoveries and new stories to be told.

However, the exhibition provides more than just an insight into the last 100 years of museum work in Spandau. It tells an intense story of the political influence on local history research - completely perverted from 1933 to 1945, but not entirely free of it in other decades either.

But the objects, pictures and quotes also bear witness to the dreams, wishes and realities of the people of Spandau.

The opportunities for a direct exchange of opinions, ideas and wishes for the future of a historical museum are and remain important in this exhibition. A playful approach with interactive stations invites visitors to engage with the exploration of valuable or even strange things, to make decisions about preservation and to think about concepts such as tradition and home.

Translated with DeepL

Runtime: Mon, 13/05/2024 to Sun, 02/03/2025

Price info: Free entry for people from the Ukraine.

Price: €4.50

Reduced price: €2.50

Reduced price info: children from 6 to 14 years – students – trainees – persons receiving transfer benefits (ALG II, social assistance, benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act) – persons with severe disabilities from 50% MdE upon presentation of the corresponding ID.

 

Public Tours in the Citadel Spandau
every 1st Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. in English 
regular tours in German on Saturday and Sunday 
at 2 p.m.

per person 4,50 € for the Tour
on MuseumsSunday free entry!

 

The latest information from the Spandau Citadel can be found on our  website.

Takes place here:

• Zitadelle Spandau