Dekoloniale – what remains?!

Decentralized exhibition at Various Locations in Berlin-Mitte

   

On November 14, 2024, the model project Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City and the Stadtmuseum Berlin will open their decentralized exhibition “Dekoloniale – what remains?!”. It explores Berlin’s centuries-long entanglement in the global history of slavery and colonialism and critically examines this violent past.

Location
Museum Nikolaikirche
Nikolaikirchplatz
10178 Berlin

Opening Hours
daily | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (also on public holidays)

Special Closing Hours
see Info & Service

Admission
7 euros (single ticket) | 15 euros (combi-ticket*) | free admission (under 18 years or with reduction)

*Valid on two consecutive days for the Museum Ephraim-Palais, the Museum Nikolaikirche and the Museum Knoblauchhaus.

Free Admission to the Museum Nikolaikirche from 15 to 17 November 2024 for the start of ‘Dekoloniale – what remains?’

Free Admission
at the other exhibition venues in the “Afrikanisches Viertel”, in the “Asiatisch-Pazifische Straßen”, in the underground station “Afrikanische Straße” in Berlin-Wedding and in Wilhelmstr. 92 in Berlin-Mitte

The exhibition features three significant sites of coloniality in Berlin-Mitte: the Museum Nikolaikirche, housing the tombs of colonial figures; the (post)colonial memorial that is the Afrikanisches Viertel [“African Quarter”] and the “Asiatisch-Pazifischen Straßen” [“Asian-Pacific Streets”] in Berlin-Wedding and the historical venue of the 1884/85 Berlin Conference on Wilhelmstraße 92. The exhibition goes beyond merely exposing the colonial racism embedded in these public spaces by overwriting it with the stories of resistance from African, Asian, and diasporic communities.

“Dekoloniale – what remains?!” concludes the inaugural phase of Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City. It poses the question: What does it mean to maintain a lasting, consistent memory?

Exhibition locations

Dekoloniale Berlin Residents

Programme

Dekoloniale – what remains?! is a joint project by Berlin Postkolonial e.V., Each One Teach One (EOTO) e.V. and the Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland (ISD-Bund e.V.), the learning and remembrance space Kolonialismus Erinnern [Remembering Colonialism], and the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin in the context of the model project Dekoloniale Memory Culture in the City. The project is funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt [Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion] and the Kulturstiftung des Bundes [German Federal Cultural Foundation].

Find out more

Info & Service

Opening Hours

daily | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (also on public holidays)

Extra opening hours/closing times
Tue | 24.12. (Christmas Eve) | closed
Wed | 25.12. (Christmas Day) | 12 noon – 6 p.m.
Thu | 26.12. (2nd Christmas Day) | 12 noon – 6 p.m.
Tue | 31.12. (New Year’s Eve) | closed
Wed | 01.01. (New Year) | 12 noon – 6 p.m.

The visitor rules of the Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin apply.

Directions

Nikolaikirchplatz
10178 Berlin

Contact

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

Free admission
With proof of reduction

For children & young people under 18, students, trainees, FSJ/FÖJ/BFD volunteers, Berlin-Ticket-S holders, severely disabled persons (with mark B) & accompanying person, refugees (with valid work or residence permit /eAT and Ukrainian passport or valid residence permit from Ukraine), recipients of residence permit /eAT and Ukrainian passport or valid residence permit from Ukraine), recipients of transfer benefits (citizen’s allowance, ALG I), holders of the Berlin-Brandenburg volunteer card, holders of the Super Holiday Pass / Berlin Family Pass, ICOM members, members of the German Museums Association, members of the Verein der Freunde und Förderer des Stadtmuseums Berlin e. V., KulturPass holders, media representatives with a valid press card
Museum Sunday
Free admission for everyone on the first Sunday of every month!