The walk-in depot

The exhibition space stores crates with around 800 porcelain and ceramic objects from the Mitte Museum collection on shelves suitable for display. This is where the otherwise invisible side of museum work – to preserve – becomes visible.
Visitors can trace this important part of working on the collection in the walk-in depot. Additionally, selected pieces are staged on a large table: creations of the Moabit porcelain manufacturers Schomburg, Schumann and Schmidt. These objects were very sought after in the 19th century and available nationwide. Electrotechnical porcelain from Moabit was used for electrification worldwide.
In 2022, around 320 objects were scientifically analyzed and digitized with funds from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe as part of the Research and Competence Center Digitalisation Berlin (“digiS”).
They are also publicly accessible through the online presentations of museum-digital, the German Digital Library Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DBB) and the Europeana.