Märkisches Museum - Stadtmuseum Berlin

Here is Berlin! That is the name of the permanent exhibition in the Märkisches Museum, the principle home of Berlin’s Stadtmuseum foundation. As the “Museum der Berliner” it presents, in its permanent exhibition, the history of the city and stories of Berlin.

With a walk through Berlin—from Mitte, Tiergarten, Moabit and Charlottenburg to Wilmersdorf and Friedrichshain—the visitor wanders through different periods and places. Thereby, in mood set viewing spaces, the exhibition pieces tell the stories starting with the first traces of its settling up into contemporary Berlin. A special attraction of the museum is the automatophones (historic mechanical music instruments), which are regularly demonstrated to the viewers.

Already since 1908, the "Märkische Provincial Museum" has been located in the brick building by the Köllnischen Park. Ludwig Hoffmann erected the building in 1899-1908, in a historic style that orients itself to the designs of the Gothic and Renaissance. Striking in this building, which is located in the crossways of Historicism and the Modern, is in particular, the medieval designed brick tower.