Museum Alexandrowka, Historic wooden house museum in Potsdam, Germany.
Museum Alexandrowka occupies a traditional wooden log house divided into six exhibition rooms. The rooms display objects and documents from the time when Russian singers and their families settled here after the Napoleonic Wars.
The house was built in 1826 as part of a Russian colony for singers who remained in Potsdam after the Napoleonic Wars ended. This settlement was a special project to house the artists and preserve their culture in Brandenburg.
The exhibits show how Russian colonists lived and worked through original furnishings and personal objects on display. You can see how two different cultures mixed and influenced each other in this village settlement.
You can explore the log house by walking slowly through the rooms and examining the objects on display. The site sits in a green area of the city, so it is worth taking time to look at the garden and surrounding buildings as well.
The garden next to the house was designed by a noted landscape architect and still exists today. Visitors can sit in this green space and understand how gardens mattered to the people who lived in this colony.
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