Category Archives: Aktuell

The story of the construction of the historic handloom in the Wendish-German Museum of Local History in Jänschwalde

AN IDEA
On 28 May 2018, a meeting of the Lusatian Museum Land working group took place at the Forst (Lusatia) Textile Museum. There, Ms Schuster, the then representative director of the Wendish-German Museum of Local History in Jänschwalde, spoke to Mr Ackermann and Mr Domann from the Historical Association of Peitz e.V. to ask if they knew of anyone who could build an old handloom,

Museums in the Spree-Neiße/Wokrejs Sprjewja-Nysa district may open from Whitsun!

The state government has issued a new "handling ordinance" that summarises the rules and regulations in dealing with the Sars-Cov-2 virus. This is associated with significant facilitations for museum visits, museum educational offers and events in museums.

"Traditional Costumes and Textile Evidence of the Sorbs/Wends in the Forster Region".

For more than 50 years, Reinhard Natusch, an enthusiastic local historian of Sacro and the surrounding area, has actively devoted himself to the history of his hometown, and so it was only natural that he should want to preserve this knowledge in books for posterity.

The "Lusatian Museum Land" as a smartphone app

For all owners of a smartphone, there are two audio/video guides in which the museums of the "Lusatian Museum Land" are presented.

The audio guides entitled "Lusatian Museum Land - Industry, Mining, Excursion Destinations by Bike" and "Lusatian Museum Land - Sorbs/Wends, Erwin Strittmatter, Heimatstuben" are available on the Hearonymus platform.

Museums are allowed to reopen!

The Brandenburg state government has decided to allow museums and exhibition halls to reopen earlier than expected.

16 May 2021 is International Museum Day!

International Museum Day is proclaimed annually by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and will take place for the 44th time in 2021.

Twenty years of museum association in Oberspreewald-Lausitz - the district museums start the new year with a record number of visitors

The museums of the district of Oberspreewald-Lausitz welcomed almost 165,000 guests from near and far in the past year 2019.

Flugplatzmuseum Cottbus e.V. becomes "Association of the Year 2019

The association Flugplatzmuseum Cottbus e.V. has been nominated by Sparkasse Spree-Neiße for the 2019 Entrepreneur Award of the East German Savings Bank Association (OSV) and the magazine "SUPERillu" in the category "Associations".

Museum Night at the Brandenburg Textile Museum Forst (Lausitz) on 7 September

As an off-site location of the Steamrose Festival, which takes place at the same time in the town of Forst (Lausitz), the museum has prepared numerous offers for all age groups. In addition to regular guided tours of the clothmaker's workshop, including machine demonstrations, there is the opportunity to visit the special exhibition "Carnival in the Neisse Valley" for the last time.

End of the special exhibition

The successful special exhibition "Photographic Memories between 1989 and 1991" at the Brandenburg Textile Museum Forst (Lausitz) ends on 2 June 2019.