Museum for Architectural Drawing, Architectural drawing museum in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin, Germany.
The Museum for Architectural Drawing is a four-story building of colored concrete and glass on Christinenstrasse in Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin. It holds two exhibition spaces fitted with wooden display cabinets designed to protect light-sensitive drawings from damage.
Architect Sergei Tchoban opened the museum in 2013 on the Pfefferberg site, a former brewery complex dating from the 19th century. The industrial grounds were partly converted to make room for the new building, while traces of the original brewery remain visible on the site.
The museum shows original drawings by architects from different periods, from quick hand sketches to detailed design studies. Visitors can see directly how a building begins as a line on paper, long before any construction starts.
The museum sits in Prenzlauer Berg and is easy to reach by public transport. The two exhibition rooms are compact, so a visit fits comfortably into a half-day alongside other stops in the neighborhood.
The building's concrete facade is covered with large reliefs depicting architectural sketches and construction elements, so the museum's subject is already readable from the street. These reliefs were designed by Tchoban himself, who both drew up the building and assembled one of the largest private collections of architectural drawings in Europe.
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