Heimatmuseum Reinickendorf

Contact Data

Address: Alt-Hermsdorf 35
ZIP, City: 13467 Berlin
Country: Germany

Fax: +49-30-40 00 92 73
Phone: +49-30-404 40 62
Phone: +49-30-404 40 62

Museumsportal Berlin: http://www.museumsportal-berlin.de/museen/museum-details/heimatmuseum-reinickendorf.html
Web: http://www.heimatmuseum-reinickendorf.de/

Description

The Heimatmuseum (museum of local history) Reinickendorf is located at the old village school house of Hermsdorf. The history of Reinickendorf is shown in topic-related rooms, thus, at the room for prehistoric and early history, with an important profile of a Palaeolithic store cavern from the Tegeler Fließ, and, at the six-villages-room, where the development of the burough is explained by the medieval villages Tegel, Hermsdorf, Lübars, Heiligensee, Wittenau, and Reinickendorf. There is also a historical school room, which refers to the original use of the museum; school classes like to use it at guided tours. Besides a room for hunters, a room for craftsmen, a Biedermeier room, and a washhouse, one can also see the reconstructed study of Wladimir Lindenberg, a doctor, philosopher, artist, and author persecuted by the National Socialist who died in 1997. In a children´s room, there are historical toys, some of them hand-made.
On the open-air ground behind the museum, there is a reconstructed Germanic farm with a walk-in nave, a weaving house, and a store house.
Besides the permanent exhibitions, there are two or three special exhibition per year. At the pottery, courses for children and adults are offered, and every Monday, there is a "narration workshop" for adults.