Vector Set
Mouse Bunker Berlin (Mäusebunker)
This vector set contains a total of 10 illustration files.
275 Days lost (1 vector)
Braesicke (1 vector)
Couch (1 vector)
Research (40 vectors)
Mouse 8201C (1 vector)
Seymour (1 vector)
Cat 11901A (1 vector)
Mouse 9811C (1 vector)
Test 980 (1 vector)
Maeusebunker Berlin, Full Building (1 vector)
+ Example postcard with clouds as background (1 vector + 1 PSD)
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The ‘Mouse Bunker’ Berlin, FEM
Since 2003 the Research Institute for Experimental Medicine (FEM) of the Charité, formerly ZTL (Central Animal Laboratory of the Free University Berlin) – in common parlance called the ‘Mouse Bunker’ (Mäusebunker) – is located in the Berlin borough Steglitz-Lichterfelde near the Teltow canal.
It was designed by Gerd and Magdalena Hänska in 1967-1970 and completed in 1981 after ten years of construction.
Used for animal testing for years
Built for the purpose of scientific experimentation on living animals, it consists of laboratories, examination and breeding rooms, animal cages and offices. According to GEO Magazin (11/1984), 100 beagles, 100 pigs and cats, 15 monkeys as well as several thousand chinchillas, guinea pigs, rats and mice were kept here on 23,000 sq m.
Brutalist architecture of post-war modernism
The brutalist pyramid structure of the concrete building displays very specific characteristics, including the triangular based windows in the shape of tetrahedrons. Blue air intake pipes, which resemble cannons, are used for ventilation of the rooms deep inside the building. Underground tunnels connect it with the Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine of the Charité (Fehling+Gogel, 1967-1974).
The ‘Mouse Bunker’ is no longer in use by the Charité. Despite a recommendation of the state monument council of Berlin (Landesdenkmalrat), it has not yet been placed under monument protection. The future therefore remains uncertain.
All mice have left the ‘Mouse Bunker’.
External links
Petition for the Preservation of the “Mäusebunker” (‘Mouse Bunker’)
Initiative to preserve the building
Film, “Mäusebunker” (‘Mouse Bunker’) of Lothar Hempel (2014)