Barnim Panorama

Geschichte

The Barnim Panorama, owned by the municipality Wandlitz, was created in September 2013 by combining the Agrarmuseum Wandlitz and the visitor center of the Barnim Nature Park. It has the largest agricultural collection in Brandenburg and offers six themed rooms to give visitors an insight into the 200-year-old history of agriculture in Brandenburg. The museum in the quarter Wandlitz was built in 1955 and could only use provisional arrangements until 2013. Because of the growing demand for more exhibition space and better opportunities to present its collection, the quarter decided to construct a new building across the street from the original museum.Founding of the museumIn 1955 the Heimatforscher (somebody researching his homeland, home town or region) and owner of the Meierhof Walter Blankenburg (1901-1984) from Wandlitz opened the so-called “Heimatstube”. He and his wife Margot had been collecting various commonly used items from rural households with the help of other residents over the course of several years that could now be shown for the first time raising a lot of public interest. Over time and with public funding the “Heimatstube” was expanded into a museum by repurposing two barns, a stable, and a 5,381 square foot (500m²) large auditorium gifted by the Free German Trade Union Federation was added to cope with the fast growing collection, now largely consisting of agricultural equipment and machinery. The museum staff was supported on an academic level by the Berlin State Museums.

"Im BARNIM PANORAMA präsentieren sich das Besucherzentrum des Naturparks Barnim und das Agrarmuseum Wandlitz unter einem Dach - eine bundesweit einmalige Kombination. Erleben Sie die Themen Natur und Landwirtschaft in einer faszinierenden Ausstellung und lernen Sie mehr über deren vielfältige Verflechtungen. Besuchen Sie unsere Sonderausstellung und lassen Sie sich von dem Schaugarten mit wertvollen Nutzpflanzen inspirieren."