Stadtmuseum Teterow

Current exhibitions

About the museum

Teterow's first local history museum was founded in 1933 by the local group of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg (Mecklenburg Homeland Association) and moved into the town hall two years later; the collection was lost during World War II. A second museum, established from 1955 in the St. Gertrud nursing home, was closed again in 1964 by decision of the district.

In the late 1970s, the conversion began of the Malchiner Tor, one of the two surviving medieval town gates, and the adjoining council and police servants' house into a local history museum. The town museum opened on International Museum Day, May 18, 1990. After a period under the roof of a cultural foundation, it has belonged to the town again since April 1, 1999.

Today exhibitions on the three gate floors and in the neighboring house inform visitors about town history, with emphasis on the Middle Ages, crafts and Jewish life. The well-preserved prison cells, fitted out in the 19th century, are unique. Children especially love the action days, when visitors can experience “Großmutters Waschtag” (grandmother's washday), grind flour on Bronze Age trough mills, or try historic street toys.

Highlights

• Well-preserved 19th-century prison cells
• Town history across the three floors of the gate tower
• Themes of the Middle Ages, crafts and Jewish life in Teterow
• Action days such as washday, flour grinding and street toys
• Smithy and bakehouse with baking days in Teschow

Permanent exhibition

• Stadtgeschichtliche Dauerausstellung im Malchiner Tor – Teterow town history in the former prison cells on the gate floor, with focuses on the Middle Ages, crafts and the history of Teterow's Jewish community.

Founded

1990

Operated by

Stadt Teterow

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Kids & families

Great for kids & families

• Family tours & workshops
• Hands-on stations

Action days at the museum, for example Grandmother's Washday (Großmutters Waschtag), grinding flour on Bronze Age trough mills or historic street toys.

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