Together with the "Friedrich Hoffmann" association, which was founded in 1996, Ziegeleipark Mildenberg e. V., it is our goal to create another attractive offer for our guests with the help of digital media and at the same time to learn something about industrial history. We would also like to reach those who have not previously been interested in museums. This is where the brickworks park can "score": cultural history is packed into experiences and hands-on activities.

The planned project can be implemented within the framework of the "Digital Change" funding area from the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Research and Culture.

On June 24, 2023, the new, inclusive water playground will be opened, which will enable age-independent play and didactic mediation of museum-specific content at the same time. This should be enriched with digital content. The digital is not an end in itself, but complements the sensual experience and enriches it with information on the historical context.

With the combination of a play landscape and a digital information format, the brickworks park aims, among other things, to provide a low-threshold offer to people who would otherwise not get involved in cultural-historical content.

The app guides visitors to the individual stations of the play landscape and serves to convey the historical context before, during and after the game action. The gaming experience is designed as a journey through time. It begins by walking through the "time tunnel" - a natural passage of about 10 meters made of willow trees, which symbolically takes visitors to the year 1889, where it all began.

Arrived at the other end, it goes straight to the first station: a huge "tonhalde" where you can shovel "clay" into a lorry with an excavator. The lorries are pushed on rails to the "hand stroke table". Here, now with sand, bricks can be hand-laid into a wooden mold as was done in the mid-1950s.

Let's move on to the "paw puzzle". The brick fire is the subject here, and a guessing game offers a short break. The next station is the "Hedwig" play ship, modeled on the historic coffee barges that used to transport the bricks down the Havel. The last station is the watercourse, where the players can pump water and fill a gully. The water flows towards the city of Berlin - the bricks have now reached their destination.

Other play equipment accompanies the visitors, for example the "Fontanes Ringofen-Torte" - a large seating area, the design of which is based on a story by Theodor Fontane, in which he describes the appearance of a Hoffmann ring oven as similar to a cake. Sitting on the cake, after the tour through the play landscape, visitors have the opportunity to digitally review what they have experienced.