Because of the growing demand for more exhibition space and better opportunities to present its collection, the quarter decided to construct a new building across the street from the original museum.

In 1955 the Heimatforscher (somebody researching his homeland, home town or region) and owner of the Meierhof Walter Blankenburg (1901–1984) from Wandlitz opened the so-called "Heimatstube".

He and his wife Margot had been collecting various commonly used items from rural households with the help of other residents over the course of several years that could now be shown for the first time raising a lot of public interest.

After the German reunification the museum would continue to exist with the financial support of the municipality Wandlitz and a newly founded booster club.

One of the most noticeable exhibits is the historic "Dampfpflug" (a plough working with a steam engine), which was situated outside the museum under a separate roof.

The reasons for giving the award to Stefan Woehrlin's team especially underlined their predominant use of environmentally sustainable construction materials, and the design towards building a low-energy house with zero emissions.

The complete former museum now uses three stories of the new building, and the whole exposition is unified under the motto "Geformte und genutzte Landschaft" (Shaped and Formed Landscape).

The foyer, a shop, as well as the exhibits "Wild Barnim" (a multimedia installation from fall 2014), "Moving Soil", and the "Tractor herd" are situated on the bottom floor.

This modern media presentation was created after a limited competition held by the "Bärlin Team Eventdesign" corporation, and produced in cooperation with the filmmakers "filmfritzen.tv".

It aims to teach visitors about the Ice Age and the following melting of the glaciers as well as the adjacent formation of lakes, forests, and swamps.

But as the wolf population is starting to grow again and the animals are returning to their historic habitat, many questions arise about how humans and wolves can live together peacefully.

Visitors are getting insight into the day-to-day life of the SED officials, their families, and their security staff living inside the locked off complex.

The exhibition asks about the impact of the housing-complex on the region and provides a geographical overview on its large walk-on-able map.

It also highlights the connections between the growing media coverage of the housing-complex in the last years of the German Democratic Republic to the Peaceful Revolution of 1989.

In July 2009, for example, melodies from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven could be heard by the visitors.