The museum is an anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

[1] The area offers a high quality of the brick-making clay, the River Havel runs through the site and provides a direct transport route to Berlin.

Up to 5,000 workers hand cut the clay, many of whom were internal migrants from the Lippe region in North Rhine-Westphalia and later from Silesia.

[1] The 58 ha park has two working brickworks from the GDR (East Germany) period, ring kilns, railways and engine workshops- a stationary steam engine and the flooded clay pits that provide an interesting environment for wildlife: including beavers and great bitterns.

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