Travel Guide "Remembrance Connects Region Oder-Warta"

94 95 A me e t i ng and d i scovery space A me e t i ng and d i scovery space Beeskow Castle, first mentioned in a document in 1316 , is located on an island in the Spree River. For 65 years, it has housed a museum with local character that is unique in Beeskow Castle and Contemporary Museum The Beeskow Museum has many uses. In addition to a museum, the collection also includes numerous works of art from the GDR. Brandenburg – a museum dedicated to exploring contemporary everyday culture and the background of that culture. With the aim of understanding and shaping the region, it now sees itself as a place to work, learn and negotiate with respect to issues that are relevant for the future. if you climb the 30 -metre--high keep, you can take in the region at a glance. Also located in the castle is the Musik- museum Burg Beeskow (Beeskow Castle Music Museum), which presents a cross-section of the history around how self-playing musical instruments developed. This collection offers an overview of all instrument types pro- duced in Europe and the USA . The focus is on the orchestrion, self-play- ing pianos, and reproduction pianos. On guided tours, visitors can immerse themselves in the forgotten world of music automatons and experience how music was reproduced 100 years ago. The site is also home to the „Museum Utopie und Alltag – Alltagskultur und Kunst in der DDR “ (The Utopia and Everyday Life Museum – Everyday Culture and Art in the GDR ). An open collection complementing the perma- nent exhibition in Eisenhüttenstadt, invites visitors to browse through a wide range of archived works, in- cluding large-scale oil paintings, fragile works on paper, heavy bronze busts, fine ceramics, or intricately woven tapestries. The collection can be visited as part of guided tours. The internationally acclaimed and multiple award-winning milestone of GDR documentary film history „Kinder von Golzow“ (Children of Golzow) traces the life of a rural school class, documenting on film their enrolment, their life up to the tenth school year, and their further development. Barbara and Winfried Junge‘s film and life project had a lasting impact on the identity and self-awareness of the community and its inhabitants. The long-term documentation consists of 20 films and a comprehensive ar- chive with unpublished material. The project was originally committed to a political mission: documenting the con- ditions and possibilities of socialism and the educational and developmental Golzow Film Museum The background and cinematic legacy of the children of Golzow is preserved to the present day in a small museum in Golzow. opportunities associated with it by observing a young generation grow up in a rural area. However, by getting close to the individual protagonists, Barbara and Winfried Junge ended up creating more than a theoretical educational film about life under socialism. Today, the history of this long-term documentation project is preserved in its own museum. Photos, documents, letters and film equipment can be viewed here. The official statement on the town entrance sign, „Ort der Kinder von Golzow“ (Site of the Children of Gol- zow) also refers to this unique project. Address: Hauptstraße 16 15328 Golzow, Deutschland www.kinder-von-golzow.com Open: January-December GPS : 52 ° 34 ‘ 23 . 5 “N 14 ° 29 ‘ 34 . 5 “E Golzow Film Museum i Address: Frankfurter Straße 23 15848 Beeskow, Deutschland www.burg-beeskow.de Open: April until September: Tue-Sun 10 . 00 - 18 . 00 October until March: Tue-Sun 11 . 00 - 17 . 00 GPS : 52 ° 10 ‘ 14 . 0 “N 14 ° 15 ‘ 08 . 5 “E Beeskow Castle and Contemporary Museum i