Haus Brandenburg der Stiftung Brandenburg

Documentation center on historic East Brandenburg and the Neumark in Fürstenwalde, with museum, archive, and library.

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About the museum

Haus Brandenburg serves to preserve and document historic East Brandenburg, that is, the areas east of the Oder and the Lusatian Neisse. The Stiftung Brandenburg (Brandenburg Foundation) was founded on May 11, 1974, in Stuttgart by the Landsmannschaft (regional expellee association). After reunification, the Landsmannschaft sought a new base near the Oder and in 1998 bought a plot in Fürstenwalde, where Haus Brandenburg was built. It opened on May 11, 1999; since 2002 the building has belonged to the foundation, which has had its seat there since 2007.

The museum has grown historically: memorabilia, everyday objects, and collections from the home districts of the Neumark were donated to the house. After a redesign in 2023, the roughly 100 m² exhibition room is divided into two parts. One part shows, in chronological order, a cross-section of the collections, beginning with the cup of the Züllichau cloth makers' guild from 1670 and continuing through the drainage of the Warthe marshes and settlement under Frederick the Great, to everyday life, flight and expulsion, the work of the home-district associations (Heimatkreise), and today's contact with the Polish population. In the other part, traveling exhibitions rotate; the top floor hosts special exhibitions. The museum is supplemented by an archive and a library; the foundation regards itself as working in the spirit of German-Polish reconciliation.

Highlights

Cup of the Züllichau cloth makers' guild from 1670
Drainage of the Warthe marshes and settlement under Frederick the Great
Collections of the home-district associations (including Landsberg/Warthe, Sternberg, Arnswalde, Soldin)
Objects on flight and expulsion
Archive and library on East Brandenburg and the Neumark

Permanent exhibition

Ostbrandenburg in den Sammlungen der Stiftung – Chronological overview of the collections, from the Neumark in the 17th century through flight and expulsion to the work of the home-district associations and contact with Poland.

Operated by: Stiftung Brandenburg

Admission & discounts

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Accessibility

Partially wheelchair accessible
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Access is via a staircase or a wheelchair-accessible path; the permanent exhibition is reachable at ground level. Special exhibitions are shown on the top floor. Archive and library holdings are provided on the ground floor when needed.