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A collection of the administration

A museum rarely exists on its own. The Mitte Museum, for example, is part of Berlin's Mitte district authority. Its predecessor institutions also belonged to a district office. This was reflected in the collections. Historically significant objects or files that were irrelevant to current administrative activities were given by the districts to “their” museum or archive. The so-called local history archives in Berlin (West), from which some Berlin local history museums emerged, were never archives in the sense of a municipal archive. Since 1992, the State Archives Act has determined the path of all artifacts produced by the Berlin administration. The Berlin State Archive now decides on the question of the preservation of such items. However, what was in a district museum before 1992 can remain there.