The Markisches Museum, East Berlin
Ian Mitchell explores the Märkisches Museum devoted to the history of Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg.
Away from the thronged Museum Island in East Berlin, where bus-tours arrive to gaze at the altar in the Pergamum Museum, or gasp at the splendour of the Ishtar Gate in the Vorderasiatisches Museum, there lies, on the sleepy Märkisches Ufer, and historical repository more visited by the locals than the tourists. This is the Märkisches Museum, devoted to the history of Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg. The building dates from the turn of the century, and is an eclectic reproduction of typical red-brick märkisch architecture, with Gothic gables, medieval tower, and Renaissance main block. Largely destroyed in the war, it has been painstakingly restored.
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