--- title: "Tapetenwechsel" date: 2026-04-08 last_modified: 2026-05-14T10:41:58+02:00 generated_at: 2026-06-05T14:53:53Z url: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/en/exhibition/tapetenwechsel" description: "This exhibition is dedicated to living in a migrant environment, what sociologists call an “arrival city.”" image: "https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/tapetenwechsel-feed-1080x1440px.png" language: "en-US" --- # Tapetenwechsel ### **Migration and Furniture since 1960** ![]() ![Tanzendes Paar im Wohnzimmer, davor Kasten mit Aufschrift "Tapetenwechsel. Migration und Mobiliar seit 1960. 22.05.2026 bis 03.01.2027"](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/tapetenwechsel-feed-080x1440px.png) ![Zwei Frauen und ein junger Mann ruhen auf Sessel, Kissen und Boden](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/web-47a-Kopie.jpg) ![In einem karg eingerichteten Zimmer sitzt ein Mann schreibend auf dem Bett](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/web-66b-Kopie.jpg) ![Mutter und erwachsene Tochter im Brautkleid neben Bett vor Fenster mit rotem Vorhang](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/web-4a-Kopie.jpg) ![Stehender Mann vor Wohnzimmerwand mit Aquarium, Urkunden und Bildern](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/web-59a-Kopie.jpg) ![Zwei Kinder in Zimmer mit Bett, Tisch und Fernsehapparat](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/web-8c-Kopie.jpg) ![Weiße Küchenzeile mit Fernsehgerät](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/web-19d-Kopie.jpg) ![Wandteppich mit drei Hirschen an bewaldetem Flussufer](https://www.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/web-42_neu_Teppich-Kopie.jpg) - This exhibition is dedicated to living in a migrant environment, what sociologists call an “arrival city”. It examines both the aesthetic and the social aspects. How do people settle in to makeshift spaces? And how do furnishings and tastes reflect the process of settling in? **Location** Museum Ephraim-Palais Poststraße 16 10178 Berlin **Opening Hours** Tue – Sun | 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (also on public holidays) Mon closed **Additional Opening 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. Habitation is a basic human need. Apartments are storehouses for memories and an expression of our own self-image. Migration makes habitation difficult. The process is marked by departures and arrivals, by resourcefulness and workarounds. ![Stacheldrahtzaun mit Wellblechwand und Tür mit Aufschrift "Gastarbeiterlager"](https://cdn.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/web-9-Kopie-300x224.jpg) When the war ended in 1945, sizeable swathes of Germany’s housing had been destroyed. Following their “change of scene,” migrant laborers to West Germany between the 1950s and the 1970s sometimes found themselves sleeping on park benches. Their “apartments” were garden sheds, barracks, or camps once used for wartime forced labor. The era of “guest labor,” or immigrant workers in Germany was characterized by hostels surrounded by barbed wire, condemned buildings, and cramped rooms. And the housing for the contract workers in East Germany in the 1980s could be described as home-less homes, as the antithesis of homey. Much like the housing for asylum seekers in the reunited Germany of the 1990s. Migration also means furnishing a room, setting up a table, hanging a curtain. But the sofa, the TV, the shelves, the rubber plant are more than just things. They also denote social standing. The political dimension of a habitation is made visible in the lease, in letters, or in the house rules. At the same time, the daily practice of living can create a home even under difficult circumstances. ![Holzstühle mit in die Lehne geritzter Schrift](https://cdn.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/web-17b-Kopie-300x200.jpg) The exhibition “Tapetenwechsel - Migration and Furniture since 1960" is part of a focus on the history of migration at the Berlin Stadtmuseum. Another part of that is the exhibition opening on September 10, 2026 called “Geteiltes Leben“, also at the Museum Ephraim Palais. It will showcase artwork in the context of migration and exile since the 1970s. Guest Curators: Burcu Dogramaci und Manuel Gogos ## Supported by: ![Wort-Bild-Marke "Haupt Stadt Kultur Fonds"](https://cdn.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/hkf_logo_1000x1800-167x300.jpg) ## 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. 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