Museum Pankow, Regional history museum in Pankow, Germany

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 grew out of four separate collections from the former districts of Pankow, Prenzlauer Berg and Weissensee, assembled before the fall of the Wall. It was formed by merging the Prenzlauer Berg Museum, the Panke-Museum, the Chronik Pankow and the Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Weissensee. Since 2012 the name Museumsverbund Pankow has been dropped in favour of Museum Pankow. Bernt Roder has directed it since 1992.

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.

Among the archive's holdings are 150 glass negatives from the workshop of Max Skladanowsky, a film pioneer, and 800 slides from 1925 made by the Pankow photographic office. The object collection of up to 10,000 items, which includes an English 250-kilogram bomb, could not yet be researched in 2013.