Public guided tours by exhibition on the first German colonial exhibition

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On May 1, 1896, the "First German Colonial Exhibition" began in Treptower Park, Berlin, and ran until October 15, 1896. The major event in politics, economy, churches as well as ethnological and scientific museums also included a discriminatory "Völkerschau", in which 106 people from the German colonies were put on display in front of a million public. Many of the participants were not aware that they should be objects of racist stereotypes and colonial fantasies and some, like Kwelle Ndumbe from Cameroon, actively defended themselves against this role, for example by looking back on the audience in Berlin with an opera glass.

The current permanent exhibition "Reviewed | Looking Back" in the Treptow museum focuses on the history and aftermath of the "first German colonial exhibition". The focus is in particular on the biographies and the resistance of the 106 people from Africa and Oceania. The exhibition, a cooperation between the Treptow-Köpenick museums and the project network decolonial culture of remembrance in the city, also highlights the structure of the colonial exhibition and its historical context.

The Museum Treptow, which is located in the historic town hall of Johannisthal, has the following opening hours: Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Fridays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and on Saturdays and Sundays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free and registration in advance is not required. Further information on the exhibition is available on the website www.berlin.de/bildung-t-k.

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| Location | Berlin |
| Date | May 1, 1896 - October 15, 1896 |
| Topic | First German colonial exhibition |
| Participant | Politics, business, churches, museums |
| Focus | History and aftermath, biographies and resistance of the 106 participants from Africa and Oceania |
| Goal | Sensitization for colonialism, racism and black resistance in the Berlin Museum |


Source: www.berlin.de