Museumsfabrik Pritzwalk, City museum in Pritzwalk, Germany.
Museumsfabrik Pritzwalk is a city museum housed in a former textile factory and presents regional industrial history through different exhibition areas. The building itself shows how factories once looked and how people worked inside them.
The museum began in 1954 as the Kreisheimatmuseum in Pritzwalk's historic salt magazine, with 60 square metres of exhibition space and 75 objects, drawing on the 1930s Heimatstube collection and salvaged pieces from the war-damaged museum at Kloster Stift zum Heiligengrabe. Albert Guthke was instrumental in its creation. From 1993 it served as the Heimatmuseum, and in 2002 it reopened as the Stadt- und Brauereimuseum in the brewery's Kontor. In 2018 it expanded into the former Draeger cloth factory via a steel footbridge and took the name Museumsfabrik.
The place shows the history of textile production that shaped Pritzwalk for generations. Visitors see tools and products from that era and understand how important this industry was to the town.
The museum is easy to reach on foot and has several stairs between exhibition areas, so visitors should use the elevators or be prepared for steps. It is advisable to allow time to explore the different rooms and outdoor areas.
The ground floor holds original textile machines from the industrial era, reassembled on site after delivery. At the first hands-on station visitors set type and print a sheet themselves, and they can also try papermaking. Prussian army uniforms show who bought Pritzwalk cloth.
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