Colonialism and resistance: New exhibition in the Treptow Museum

Colonialism and resistance: New exhibition in the Treptow Museum

on 04.02.2024 and on March 12th. and 14.03.2024 the exhibition "Back | Looking Back" takes place in the Museum Treptow in the Johannisthal town hall in Berlin. The reason for the exhibition is the Black History Month and the international weeks against racism.

The exhibition illuminates the story and the effects of the "first German colonial exhibition", which from 01.05. until October 15, 1896 in Treptower Park. At this major event, 106 people from the German colonies were launched in front of an audience of millions in a discriminatory “Völkerschau”. Many of the participants were not aware that they should be “exhibited” in Berlin to operate racist stereotypes and colonial fantasies. The exhibition focuses on the biographies and the resistance of the 106 children, women and men from Africa and Oceania and illustrates the historical context of the colonial exhibition.

The permanent exhibition "Reviewed | Looking Back" is a cooperation between the Treptow-Köpenick museums and the project network decolonial culture of remembrance in the city and is the first permanent exhibition on colonialism, racism and black resistance in a public Berlin museum.

The Museum Treptow has the following opening times: Mon to Thursday 10:00 a.m. to 6 p.m., Fri 9:00 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sat and Sun 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Admission is free and registration is not required. Further information is available on the website www.berlin.de/bildung-t-k

Source: www.berlin.de