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Exhibitions

 

The Museumspark has a central, unique selling point: its limestone outcrop. Accordingly, the exhibitions at the Museumspark revolve around limestone, its countless properties, and its products: How was it formed? How was it mined, transported, and processed? How did it shape the landscape, cities, and villages? What is the current significance of limestone, and how is it used and processed today?

 

The park itself is an exhibition landscape with monuments from pre-industrial times and the industrial era – with magnificent insights into Brandenburg's only active open-cast limestone mine. The outdoor exhibitions cover topics as diverse as geology, mining history, industrial culture, architecture, building material extraction, and social, political, and ecological history. The Museumspark offers a mix of open-air museum and indoor museum exhibitions.

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geology

The heart of our exhibitions is the geological exhibition in the Otto-Torell House .

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laboratory exhibition

Learn more about the daily work of the women and men who ensured that cement and concrete from Rüdersdorf were stable and safe – as well as about the testing methods used in the laboratories at cement plants.

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shaft furnace battery

Visit our historic shaft furnace battery, also known as the Cathedral of Lime, this architectural gem of high-industrialization, which was built from 1871 onwards.

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ropeway diversion station

What looks like a covered steel bridge is part of an old cable car that was built in 1953.

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building materials

The permanent exhibition “Building Materials for Generations” guides you through the history and diversity of the building materials produced in Rüdersdorf.

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Time Travel Cement

In our exhibition “Time Travel Cement” you can learn all about the building material that surrounds us in our everyday lives – and is an important component of Rüdersdorf limestone.

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Fascination: Lime

Over millions of years, massive limestone deposits have emerged from the creatures that lived in the oceans in prehistoric times – as is the case in Rüdersdorf. Limestone not only forms the basis of the building materials industry here, but also the basic substrate for an incredible array of other products.

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mining educational trail

Mining in the North German lowlands? - It's been happening in Rüdersdorf since the late Middle Ages, when Cistercian monks recognized the value of the limestone found only here.

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Rüdersdorf ovens

In the front part of the Museumspark, where the oldest buildings are located, three types of kilns used for lime burning can be viewed: a Germanic kiln, a chamber kiln from the 17th century, and the two impressive Rumford kilns from the early 19th century.

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pulley pullar

The monumental pulley pillar may seem like the lonely remnant of a castle today. But upon closer inspection, it tells of Franco-German history, an economic boom, and, of course, Berlin's rapid growth – thanks to the Rüdersdorf limestone mining industry.

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