Digital Day 2025: Spandauer Archive opens doors to the digital future!

Digital Day 2025: Spandauer Archive opens doors to the digital future!

Zitadelle, Am Juliusturm 64, 13599 Berlin, Deutschland - On June 27, 2024, the city historical Museum Spandau invites you to the digital day 2025. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Citadel Berlin, Am Juliusturm 64, 13599 Berlin, opens its doors to the interested public. Visitors have the opportunity to find out about the current digitization projects of the archive and to discover digitized materials.

The archive has existed since 1983 and has been kept over 3,500 shelf meters of archives that document the history of Spandaus. The core tasks of the archive are the preservation of the documents and their utilization, with digitization playing a central role. Archive director Sebastian Schuth will be available for questions on this day and lead through a guided tour that begins at 3 p.m. The number of participants is limited to a maximum of 10 people, registration is required.

digitization as a cultural mandate

The digitization of archives is not only promoted in Spandau, but also in other Berlin cultural institutions. The cultural administration promotes the digitization of objects from archives, libraries, museums and memorials with the aim of digitizing outstanding cultural assets that are important for Berlin or the respective institution. Since 2014, the cultural administration has been relating to a competitive procedure for the promotion of digitization projects, accompanied by an external jury, depending on the available budget.

As part of these initiatives, the ZUE Institute Berlin has set up a service point that offers advice and provides digitization services for cultural institutions. Particular attention is paid to long -term archiving to ensure that the digitized content is preserved for future generations.

event details

Visitors to the digital day can explore the digitized archive materials of the city historical museum Spandau at five stations. In order to clarify organizational details, registration is required on site or by email to archiv@zitadell-berlin.de . For more information, Seraphina Rekowski is available on telephone number 354 944-401 or by email to press@zitadelle-berlin.de . More details can also be found on the museum's website at www.zitadelle-berlin.de