Guben Town and Indus­trial Museum

With inno­v­a­tive design ideas and the use of mod­ern media, the City and Indus­try Museum pre­sents itself in the for­mer hat fac­tory of Carl Got­t­lob Wilke, the Ger­man inven­tor of the weath­er­proof woollen felt hat. A museum to expe­ri­ence with dig­i­tal per­spec­tive and vir­tual real­ity.

Under 14 themed bon­nets hang­ing from the ceil­ing, the mul­ti­fac­eted his­tory of Guben's town and indus­try can be expe­ri­enced in Ger­man and Pol­ish on around 450 square metres. His­tor­i­cal knowl­edge about the town's his­tory and tra­di­tional hat mak­ing can be expe­ri­enced in a vari­ety of ways: through sto­ries to lis­ten to and mar­vel at, inter­est­ing things to read and watch, his­tory to touch and hats to try on in the "Vir­tual and Real Hat Try-On Sta­tion".

The world of old crafts can be expe­ri­enced inter­ac­tively in vir­tual real­ity via VR glasses. In addi­tion to these VR glasses, since 2022 there have also been ten QR codes that can be called up with one's own mobile phone. You can lis­ten to ten audio episodes (pod­casts) on the topic: "The 10 secrets of hat mak­ing in Guben" as a con­tem­po­rary wit­ness report on hat mak­ing in Guben in the for­mer VEB Hutwerke Guben.