Schwules Museum - Gay Museum
Current Exhibitions
Self-Awareness and Persistence — 200 years of Gay History
Permanent Exhibition at the Schwules Museums
Photography – Petra Gall – Rüdiger Trautsch
Sex Education and Scandal
50 Years of Gays and Lesbians in BRAVO
Mehringdamm 61
10961 Berlin
Telephone: +49 (0)30 69 59 90 50
Fax: +49 (0)30 61 20 22 89
Schwules Museumhttp://www.schwulesmuseum.de/
The Schwule Museum Berlin (Gay Museum Berlin) is the worldwide only institution, which researches systematically history, culture, and the everyday life of homosexuals, and documents this in exhibitions and publications. At the archive, various material on the social and cultural history of homosexual life and on the Gays´ movement get collected, among them estates, magazines, articles, posters, films, photographs, records, costumes, and knick-knacks. Meanwhile, the library has more about 10,000 volumes. Both archive and library are open for all interested.
The permanent exhibition opened in 2004 gives an overview on 200 years of history of the homosexuals in Germany between oppression and emancipation. Special exhibitions are dedicated to individual artist or special topics of the gay cultural history. Within the series of homage of people of public life, among others, Oscar Wilde, Marlene Dietrich, Michel Foucault, and Greta Garbo were honoured.
The Schwule Museum aims to present the variety of homosexual life drafts just to counteract stigmatisation, and to promote the acceptance of different ways of life.
Related Topics
Art, Berlin, Gay Movement, Homosexuality, Literature, Magnus Hirschfeld, Photography, Queer Movement
