Museum Pankow

Museum Pankow is housed in a former school building on Prenzlauer Allee and displays exhibitions about the district's past through multiple floors. The building contains gallery spaces, storage areas for collections, archives, and research facilities that serve both visitors and scholars.

The museum was founded in 2001 when Berlin's administrative reform merged four separate local history collections into a single institution. This combination brought together decades of gathered materials and created a comprehensive repository for the district's past.

The museum draws its name from the Pankow district whose story it tells through displayed items and archival materials. Visitors experience how these collections reflect the everyday life and social changes of this northeast Berlin neighborhood across different periods.

The museum opens Tuesday through Sunday and allows visitors to explore both exhibition galleries and work with archival materials in dedicated reading areas. You can spend time browsing displays or consulting specific documents if you want to research aspects of the district's history in depth.

The collection preserves glass plate negatives from the workshop of Max Skladanowsky, a pioneer of early film technology. Additionally, the museum holds extensive slide collections from the 1920s that capture rare visual records of the district in that era.