Education and Knowledge Transfer

A free space for events

Several initiatives use the Mitte Museum garden. 
It is a space to garden and learn.  

With the handcart and selected museum treasures

Others call it “outreach” – for us, it is a handcart. And that is what we use to visit you – in your schools, in the urban space – wherever you would like us to go.

Vens for unaccompanied adolescent refugees, students 
from welcome classes and all other new arrivals in Berlin

We often hear that “Berlin has more bridges than Venice.” Yet what does that mean?

Guided tour for school classes through the old Mitte district of Berlin.

Where does our staple, the potato, actually come from?

Museum education workshop for school classes

Guided tour for school classes through Berlin’s past

Together, we walk through “Old Berlin” and discover life in the big city as it was 100 years ago.

We take you on a city walk along the river Panke

Guided tour for school classes in the local district Gesundbrunnen

Museum education workshop for school classes

The workshop takes place at the Mitte Museum. However, we can also arrange to come to your school and transform your classroom into a classroom from the past.

(Hi)stories in the centre of Berlin

We guide you through the new permanent exhibition “Up from the Sand” and tell you stories about Berlin, right in its centre. Who built the city? How did it develop over time? What did the district of Mitte look like in the past? And who owns the city?

The route of deportation for Jews from Moabit between 1942 and 1944

Guided tour for adolescents from school year 8 and for adults

Please note: This guided tour is already fully booked – further dates can be arranged on request. 

Guided tour for school classes in the Mitte district

Together, we visit places relevant to the founding of Berlin, discover traces of the city wall, ask questions about how the river Spree worked as a trading route, and explore the historic district Nikolaiviertel.

Please contact us to arrange a tour

Guided tour and workshop for pupils from the age of 15

(Hi)stories to unpack, touch and discover

We are coming to your school with a suitcase full of historic museum objects. Why did these objects land in the museum’s suitcase? What are the stories behind the objects and what is it that makes an object valuable for historic research?

Have you ever heard of the Bolle girls? Did you know that Kleiner Tiergarten was a former hunting ground?

Guided tour for school classes in the local district of Moabit
Dates and times to be agreed in advance