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Mitte Museum | Talk, Vortrag
24.7.26, 19:00h
Keynote by Joachim Baur: “Das radikaldemokratische Museum”
Prof. Dr. Joachim Baur, Kurator und Professor für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft an der TU Dortmund. © Silke Wawro

How can criticism of the museum be effectively channelled within the institution itself? What role do museums play as venues for democratic participation?

Mitte Museum | Gespräch, Vortrag
24.7.26, 19:00h
Keynote von Joachim Baur „Das radikaldemokratische Museum“
Prof. Dr. Joachim Baur, Kurator und Professor für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft an der TU Dortmund. © Silke Wawro

Wie kann Kritik am Museum innerhalb der Institution selbst wirksam werden? Welche Rolle spielen Museen als Orte demokratischer Teilhabe?

Mitte Museum | Ausstellung, Museumsevent, Rundgang
18.8.26, 18:00h – 19:00h
Guided Tour of the Exhibition “umbenennen?!” with Curator Tabea Thielmann (german)
Die Polizei entfernt am 2. Oktober 1994 die vom Aktiven Museum angebrachte Zusatztafel zur Clara-Zetkin-Straße. Fotografie: J. Henschel.

A street name is rarely neutral. It commemorates, honours, obscures—and sometimes does all of these things at once. In this guided tour, curator Tabea Thielmann takes visitors through the exhibition, uncovering the stories behind Berlin’s street signs, explaining how renamings come about, and exploring why some names remain unchanged.

Mitte Museum | Talk, Vortrag
20.8.26, 18:00h – 20:00h
Between Propaganda and Remembrance: Reinhold Huhn, Egon Schultz, and the Question of Justice
Die Polizei entfernt am 2. Oktober 1994 die vom Aktiven Museum angebrachte Zusatztafel zur Clara-Zetkin-Straße. Fotografie: J. Henschel.

Between 1948 and 1989, eight East German border guards lost their lives while on duty. In the GDR, they were elevated to the status of heroes, with streets named after them and their deaths portrayed as deliberate acts of murder. Among them were Reinhold Huhn (1942–1962) and Egon Schultz (1943–1964).

Klosterruine | Führung
27.8.26, 17:00h – 18:00h
Art tour with Alin Daghestani
Nazanin Noori, Eröffnung, BEHOLD GOD IN ALL THAT EXISTS IN HIS NAME, Klosterruine, 2026, Foto: Piotr Pietrus

Klosterruine Berlin invites visitors to a public tour of the historic monument every third Thursday of the month from May to September. Together with Alin Daghestani, Program Coordinator and Curatorial Assistant at Klosterruine, visitors will gain insights into the history of the former Franciscan monastery as well as the current site-specific artistic works presented on site. The tour is followed by an opportunity for conversation and exchange.

Mitte Museum | Ausstellung, Exhibition, Opening
9.9.26, 18:00h
Exhibition opening: Lang ist es nicht her. Und jetzt ist es soweit. – Susanne Kerckhoff
Foto: Camille Compere

The exhibition at the Mitte Museum is dedicated to the writer and journalist Susanne Kerckhoff (1918–1950), one of the defining voices of Germany’s early post-war period. Between 1948 and 1949, Kerckhoff published a series of fictional portraits in the Berliner Zeitung that addressed pressing questions facing post-war society: guilt, denazification, antisemitism, and democracy. For the first time, the exhibition offers a comprehensive exploration of this body of work while asking what these texts can tell us about Germany today.

Mitte Museum | Ausstellung, Museumsevent, Rundgang
16.9.26, 18:00h – 19:00h
Guided Tour of the Exhibition “umbenennen?!” with Curator Tabea Thielmann (german)
Die Polizei entfernt am 2. Oktober 1994 die vom Aktiven Museum angebrachte Zusatztafel zur Clara-Zetkin-Straße. Fotografie: J. Henschel.

A street name is rarely neutral. It commemorates, honours, obscures—and sometimes does all of these things at once. In this guided tour, curator Tabea Thielmann takes visitors through the exhibition, uncovering the stories behind Berlin’s street signs, explaining how renamings come about, and exploring why some names remain unchanged.

Klosterruine | Führung
17.9.26, 17:00h – 18:00h
Art tour with Alin Daghestani
Nazanin Noori, Eröffnung, BEHOLD GOD IN ALL THAT EXISTS IN HIS NAME, Klosterruine, 2026, Foto: Piotr Pietrus

Klosterruine Berlin invites visitors to a public tour of the historic monument every third Thursday of the month from May to September. Together with Alin Daghestani, Program Coordinator and Curatorial Assistant at Klosterruine, visitors will gain insights into the history of the former Franciscan monastery as well as the current site-specific artistic works presented on site. The tour is followed by an opportunity for conversation and exchange.

Mitte Museum | Stadtrundgang, Tour
20.9.26, 13:00h – 15:00h
The Women’s Quarter Around Berlin Central Station – A Guided Tour with Trille Schünke-Bettinger
Die Polizei entfernt am 2. Oktober 1994 die vom Aktiven Museum angebrachte Zusatztafel zur Clara-Zetkin-Straße. Fotografie: J. Henschel.

To this day, far more streets are named after men than after women. When an entirely new district was planned around Berlin Central Station, a conscious effort was made to change that: many of the newly created streets were named after women.

Exhibitions

10.9.26 — 21.2.27, 10:00h – 18:00h
Lang ist es nicht her. Und jetzt ist es soweit. – Susanne Kerckhoff
Foto: Camille Compere

The exhibition at the Mitte Museum is dedicated to the writer and journalist Susanne Kerckhoff (1918–1950), one of the defining voices of Germany’s early post-war period. Between 1948 and 1949, Kerckhoff published a series of fictional portraits in the Berliner Zeitung that addressed pressing questions facing post-war society: guilt, denazification, antisemitism, and democracy. For the first time, the exhibition offers a comprehensive exploration of this body of work while asking what these texts can tell us about Germany today.

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