Integration of travelling exhibitions into the area of the permanent exhibition

Museums are made for their guests. Often, exhibition organisers have to come up with new ideas as, from time to time, unexpected circumstances occur. The family exhibition "Fairyland Babelsberg" is still being well received. Due to these good responses, the semi-permanent exhibition will not be removed in April 2006 (as initially planned) but will be extended until 2007. As the museum does not have more than two exhibition areas with 450 square metres each, exhibition space is needed for the travelling exhibitions of 2006 that have already been prepared for a long time: a vital museum has to consistently develop new offers for its guests.

This new exhibition area is created by a restructuring of the permanent exhibition: both installations (illustrating the prohibited films of 1965/66 and the end of DEFA) will be removed, same as the two children′s areas (on "1, 2, 3 – Corona" and on film trick design). The children′s areas will be taken over by the museum′s cooperation partner Filmpark Babelsberg for the 2006 season.
The four media tables (with two monitors each, one showing excerpts from the exhibition′s films, the other providing access to the computer-based information system) will be integrated into the "wall of contemporary history". This way, both the permanent exhibition′s core and the offer of information will remain almost complete.

The room will be divided by lengthwise installed translucent partitions. At the beginning of May 2006, guests may visit two exhibitions on the ground floor. Travelling exhibition.