What Colour is Freedom?

Museum Ephraim-Palais
Everyone is invited to design their own freedom flags using colours and colourful fabrics (symbolic image).
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On ‘Sunday at the Nikolai Quarter’, a wide-ranging programme awaits you at the Museum Ephraim-Palais.
© Stadtmuseum Berlin | Photo: Fiona Hirschmann

In this creative activity for Black History Month, participants can design their own personal flag.

Prices
Regular: 7 Euros
Reduced: free of charge
Children: under 18 years free admission
Location
Museum Laboratory (Ground Floor)
Event
Duration
6h

What does freedom mean? What colours and shapes represent it? On this ‘Sunday in the Nikolai Quarter’, individual flags of freedom are created from fabric, colourful paper and textile paints to mark Black History Month.
 
The event is inspired by the story of Harriet Tubman (1822–1913), a heroine of the African American community in the United States. During the American Civil War (1861–1865), she helped numerous enslaved people from the southern states escape to the northern states so that they could live in freedom. To facilitate secret communication during the escape, helpers are said to have made blankets whose patterns and colours conveyed important information that only enslaved people could decipher.
 
Supervision
Tanja-Bianca Schmidt (art historian and curator)
Karen Michelsen Castañón (artist)
 
A collaboration with Jugend im Museum e. V. (Youth in Museums Association)

Info & Service

Opening Hours

Tue – Sun | 10 am – 6 pm (also on public holidays)
Mon closed

Differing opening hours:
Mon | 06.04. (Easter Monday) | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Mon | 25.05. (Whit Monday) | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sun | 21.06. | 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. (Museum Festival / Fête de la Musique)

The visitor rules of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin apply.

Directions

Poststraße 16
10178 Berlin

Contact

Infoline
+49 30 24 002-162
Mo – Fri | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
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Accessibility

The Ephraim-Palais is accessible without steps. All exhibition areas are accessible via an elevator. There are barrier-free toilets in the building.

Tickets

Admission

Combi-Ticket
15 euros
Valid for our three museums in the Nikolaiviertel (Museum Nikolaikirche, Museum Ephraim-Palais, Museum Knoblauchhaus) on two consecutive days (please note opening hours)

Single Ticket
7 euros
Day ticket for the Museum Ephraim-Palais

Free admission
With proof of reduction

for children and adolescents under 18 years of age, students, trainees, FSJ/FÖJ/BFD volunteers, Berlin Ticket S holders, severely disabled persons (at least 50% GdB) and their Personal Assistant, refugees (with a valid work or residence permit/eAT and a Ukrainian passport or valid residence permit from Ukraine), recipients of transfer payments (Bürgergeld, ALG I), holders of the Berlin-Brandenburg Ehrenamtskarte, holders of the Super-Ferienpass / Berliner Familienpass, ICOM members, members of Deutscher Museumsbund, Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Stadtmuseums Berlin e. V. (except for the Museumsdorf Düppel), Förderverein Museumsdorf Düppel e. V., and Förderkreis Museum Knoblauchhaus e. V., media representatives with a valid press card.