Developments in Agriculture and Industry

The Agrarian Museum Wandlitz ( "Reforms and Success: The Industrialisation of Agriculture", May 20 to August 12, 2001), the Domäne Dahlem ( "Berlin - a Huge Belly, Famine Crisis and providing for the Growing Metropolis", August 22 to December 31, 2001), the Freilichtmuseum Altranft ( "The Sweet Aspect of Agrarian Reforms: Sugar from the Oderbruch", May 13 to August 12, 2001), the Gedenkstätte Albrecht Daniel Thaer in Möglin ( "Agrarian Reformer Albrecht Daniel Thaer", May 21 to August 12, 2001) and the Sorb Village Museum at Bloischdorf ("Farmer turning Agricultural Worker - Losers of the Agrarian Reforms", August 25 to December 31, 2001) all focus on Prussian Agrarian reforms in the first half of the 19th century and their impact on people and country up until the present day.

The museums of local history in Zehlendorf and Treptow will show how plantations of mulberry bushes were established in Berlin´s south in order to breed silkworms in the need to satisfy the demand for silk at court, and will reveal the secrets of silk production. ("State Cultivation in Berlin´s South" - Treptow from August 18, Zehlendorf from August 25)

The Iron Working Museum in Peitz will be relating the history of the iron work furnace at Peitz in a special exhibition and thus illustrating aspects of industrial development in Brandenburg-Prussia . ( "The Ironworks at Peitz - Rise and Fall of an Industrial Location", from July 2, 2001)

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