New in the art collection: The Schwules Museum acquires a photographic series ...
6. December 2024
Annette Frick's portraits of Gunter Strube, BeV StroganoV and the drag couple “Fiona & a friend” are among the new acquisitions in more
Annette Frick's portraits of Gunter Strube, BeV StroganoV and the drag couple “Fiona & a friend” are among the new acquisitions in more
An artistic and archive-based exhibition on queer life, queer knowledge and queer spirituality in Southeast Asia and its diaspora
The life of Eberhard Brucks in the mirror of contemporary artworks
After a serious illness, our former archive and collection manager Dr. Jens Dobler passed away in Berlin.
We remember Dr. Jens Dobler, our former head of archives and collections, who died on February 13 after a serious illness.
a cooperation with the Tiergarten-Süd district coordination office
The whores from the MUSEUM OF SEX WORK have their say!
a joint exhibition of Schwules Museums and Archiv der deutschen Jugendbewegung
Press release "The Schwules Museum as an endangered space"
The Sonntags-Club combative and turbulent history is made visible in a 50th anniversary exhibition at two locations: the Sonntags-Club and the Schwules more
After a long and serious illness, publisher and activist Egmont Fassbinder has died in Berlin at the age of 77.
In the retrospective of Rüdiger Trautsch, who died in 2021, focal points of his work from five decades will be exhibited.
An immersive space for doing nothing together, a film and audio program with works by international artists to hang around and have more
Statement of the Gay Museum regarding the most recent attack
A workshop program on queer identity and performance
The SMU participates in the 50€ credit for all Berliners from 18-23 years of age.
The audio tour "We Have Always Been Everywhere" on sex work in Schöneberg releases on 1st December with a guided walking tour more
In 2018, the Schwules Museum proclaimed the YEAR OF THE WOMEN*. Now a multi-layered documentation of the project is going online with more
For the 19th edition of the fetish-street festivla, the SMU is showing the nominations, as well as the final winner of the more
The Schwules Museum opens the first international exhibition on queerness and disability on September 1st.
On the evening of May 1 in 1990, Tunten from Kreuzberg occupy the Mainzer Straße 4 in East-Berlin and develop an anti-patriarchal more
The Board of the Schwules Museum congratulates Saideh Saadat-Lendle, founder and long-time director of LesMigraS, for winning the Berlin Prize for Lesbian* more
Ocaña. Der Engel, der in der Qual singt is the first exhibition in Germany about Andalusian artist José Pérez Ocaña.
Encantadas describes the search for original Latin American identities by a young collective with the three Brazilian trans curators A TRANSÄLIEN, Sanni more
In costumes made from street trash, food waste, and stolen objects, Stephen Varble took to the streets of 1970s New York City more
SMU's first inter*-only exhibition is dedicated to the past and present of the intersex movement in activism, society, art and culture.
The exhibition project "arcHIV" broadly investigates the museum's collection(s) on HIV/AIDS.
On Thursday, Facebook blocked temporarily the page of the Schwules Museum (Gay Museum, or SMU) in Berlin. The social media giant thus more
The Schwules Museum is back!
Irène Mélix spent several years exploring the construction of lesbian identities and queer herstory.
Obituary for the activist Christian Pulz. By Birga Meyer and Lotte Thaa
Two trans people, one hot topic: artist and curator Sanni Est presents her brand new podcast "The Tea Talk".
This lecture series takes queer theory’s conversation about intimacy as a starting point to discuss some of its cultural possibilities, mediated forms, more
Artist and curator Sanni Est talks about her fellowship at the SMU.
In the 1990s, most of East-Berlin's queer spaces disappeared, often together with the groups that fought for them. The exhibition “Rosarot in more
The new exhibition "Intimacy - New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond" presents more than 30 artistic positions on the ever-shifting forms more
The Goethe-Institut USA and the SMU are launching a digitally modified version of the exhibition Queer as German Folk
Nihad Nino Pušija tells about the background of the exhibition ''Queens''
Parts of the estate of photographer Petra Gall are now digitized and available online.
The Newsletter of July 2020 has it all! Rumors about the SMU moving to Kreuzberg, a book presentation under special circumstances, not more
The Newsletter June 2020! Here are news about our library and archive, an interview with Peter Rehberg and we present our volunteer, more
The library and the archive will reopen at 3rd of June. Visits require an appointment.
The museums reopens!
The Schwules Museum will turn the spotlight on its own collection, presenting the richness, diversity and fascination of our collection in 100 more
With the exhibition „Queens“, photographer Nihad Nino Pušija presents a fascinating portrait of queer, (post-)migrant nightlife in Berlin in the 1990s.
The Schwules Museum will be closed to the public from March 13th, following the recommendation of the Berlin Senate. This measure, valid more
This retrospective is the first comprehensive museum exhibition featuring the works of Amos Badertscher outside the US.
After its premiere two years ago at the Schwules Museum, Marc Martin's successful exhibition „Fenster zum Klo” opens at Point Éphémère in more
To mark the 100th anniversary of Richard Oswald's legendary film, the Schwules Museum is cooperating with the Museum for Film and Television more
Bodies of superheroes and animal heads, a conquest of perfection through syncretism, suggest a game beyond the real. Welcome to the world more
The Bode Museum in Berlin dares a second, queer glance at its collection. A cooperation with the Schwules Museum.
The exhibition “HIVstories: Living Politics” explores different ways of living politics from the perspectives of a variety of particularly impacted communities in more
Be a part of „From Riot to Respectability – Summer Special“
On the night of the June 27th, 1969, police stormed the Stonewall Inn – yet again, but one time too many. The more
ALMS 2019 Berlin: Queering Memory. Archives, Libraries, Museums and Special Collections: An International LGBTIQ+ Conference at Haus der Kulturen der Welt
The “Queer Archives Institute” is an artistic project founded by Karol Radziszewski dedicated to research, collection, digitalization, presentation, exhibition, analysis, and artistic more
Life is more than a cabaret: The exhibition "My Dearest Sweet Love" at Schwules Museum traces the 33-year relationship between author Christopher more
For four decades the Gay Teachers Action Group has fought for acceptance and recognition. The Schwules Museum honors them with a special more
Krzystof Jungs from the eyes of his estate manager and best friend Dorota Krawczyk-Janisch.
The Schwules Museum’s exhibition of drawings by Krzysztof Jung is its first by an artist from Poland.
A new exhibition by sex worker led collective Objects of Desire explores stories around the everyday practice of sex work in Berlin.
We sat down with Dr. Katherine Bucknell, a curator of "My Dearest Sweet Love: Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy", to talk about more
Ist ein Schwules Museum ein guter Ort für eine Transgender-Sammlung?
For the first time in the world, the queer history of video games will be explored in a major exhibition.
Wie organisieren LSBT*IQ+-Personen Care-Themen in ihrem Leben? In einer hetero- und cisnormativen sowie heterosexistischen Welt stellen sich LSBT*IQ+-Personen Fragen nach ihrer Gesundheitsversorgung, more
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Press Release/Press Images as Download
Objects of Desire is a collaborative project led by sex workers. Through archiving and exhibiting donated objects, Objects of Desire aims to more
A year after the opening of the successful exhibition Fenster zum Klo at Schwules Museum Berlin (November 2017 until February 2018), the more
Recently we welcomed Freie Universität PhD candidate Recep Ozdaş from Turkey as an intern here at the Schwules Museum. In his doctorate more
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At the annual meeting of members of the Verein der Freundinnen und Freunde des Schwulen Museum e.V. on 29 September 2018 a more
COVEN BERLIN presents EXTRA+TERRESTRIAL: an exhibition that weaves together archetypes of Otherness – the witch, the alien, the monster, and the cyborg more
We’re very excited to introduce our new intern Recep Ozdas from Turkey. Recep will be working with Schwules Museum for the next more
On September 18, 2018, Schwules Museum will launch its first official crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to fund an exhibition catalog for SMU’s more
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HIJRA FANTASTIK is an inquiry into a Femininity not defined biologically and grapples artistically with the contradictory Hijra identity as a woman more
Many will recall last year’s exhibition Odarodle - An imaginary their_story of naturepeoples, 1535-2017. It was an artistic and research based show more
During his internship, Italian comic artist David Pighin initiated an artistic project titled: “Schwules Museum is…”. He approached the museum's volunteers asking more
In June 2018, US podcaster Drew Michael Wunder visited Schwules Museum working on his series “Around the World with 80 Gays”.
Interview with Davide Pighin who organises the comic workshop LET'S MAKE COMICS July 5 - 7
Bathing Fishermen in the Blue Grotto of Capri is one of the most widely known and valuable pieces in the collection of more
For the first time worldwide, the queer history of video games will be explored in a major exhibition: »Rainbow Arcade« will open more
Schwules Museum is looking for a project assistant to support the curators of the upcoming exhibition »Rainbow Arcade«. The job position is more
To fully realize our exhibition RAINBOW ARCADE, we are looking for an Art Director & Exhibition Designer for the duration of the more
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Press Release/Press Images as Download
Press release and press images on the exhibition LESBIAN VISIONS – Artistic positions from Berlin
We have a new Head of Archive and Collections: Dr. Peter Rehberg. He studied German Philology, Art History, and Philosophy in Hamburg.
Press release and press images on the 4th program of the 12 Moons Film Lounge
Schwules Museum is pleased to announce the opening of a dyke bar within the Museum’s café for the duration of the Year more
The 3rd film program of 12 Moons juxtaposes two films: the lesbian-feminist classic Born in Flames (1983) and the trans*-queer anarcha musical more
The new look of Schwules Museum in Berlin reconnects with the radical and self-confident spirit of its origins in the mid-eighties. Dynamic, more
press photos, press releases and additional downloads for the exhibition "Stefan Thiel: 100 BERLIN BASED MEN"
press photos, press releases and additional downloads for the exhibition "colony"
The group exhibition “ğ – the soft g” at Schwules Museum* brings together works that follow artistic migration in various directions and more
Press photos, press releases and additional downloads for "LÄSBISCH TV"
Press photos, press releases and additional downloads for the exhibition "Fascination Sex: The Theorist & Activist Martin Dannecker"
Press photos, press releases and additional downloads for the exhibition "Marc Martin: Fenster zum Klo. Public Toilets & Private Affairs"
Press photos, press releases and additional downloads for the exhibition "Queer City: Stories from São Paulo"
Schwules Museum* is proposing Ebru Kırancı for this year’s “Sozialer Menschenrechtspreis“ (Social Human Rights Prize) of the Eberhard-Schultz-Stiftung.
An exhibition commemorating the 300th Birthday of Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717-1768). Curated by Dr. Wolfgang Cortjaens.
Ashkan Sepahvand is our Post-Colonial Curatorial Fellow at the Schwules Museum*
Change of Scenery – as an exhibition series – wants to move forward and develop further, always.
So, It’s a Girl” will be the first exhibition to examine both Klaus’s life and work, together with that of his famous more
At the members meeting on September 6th 2016, The Schwules Museum* elected a new board of directors.
The artistic research exhibition Odarodle – an imaginary their_story of naturepeoples, 1535–2017 casts, for the first time, a postcolonial perspective on the more
Bühnenbild: Peter Kothe. Ein ostwestdeutsches Leben setzt die Reihe von Ausstellung über queere Bühnenbildner am Schwulen Museum* fort. Sie wurde kuratiert von more
Yesterday afternoon, Tuesday, the Schwules Museum* was informed by their partner organization LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster that the German more
Just before the opening of the exhibition "Homosexualit_ies" at the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster, Westphalia on 12 May 2016, more
Jan Schnorrenberg has recently joined our museum team as part of our press office.
Wolfgang Cortjaens has recently joined our museum team: since 1 April, 2016, he is the new head of our archive and library.
A Different View: Postcolonial Perspectives at the Schwules Museum*: We are searching for Research Fellows / Curators.
Ashkan Sepahvand is pleased to join the Schwules Museum* for the next 18 months as a Curatorial Fellow as part of the International Museum Fellowship more
30 Years of HIV/AIDS activism in posters, photographs, audio, film and printed matter you can touch and flip through: Berlin AIDSHilfe e.V. more
For the first time ever, an exhibition combines the developments, past and present, of gay, lesbian, trans* and queer pornography.
In early summer 2015, the Schwules Museum* (Gay Museum*,) in partnership with the German Historical Museum, will open a comprehensive exhibition on more
We invite all children and adults to visit us and have fun at the exhibition and by exploring our Museum Store!
The Schwules Museum in collaboration with Amnesty International present an extensive exhibition of South African artist Zanele Muholi's photographic works.
A live documentary exhibition on corrective rape against lesbian women in Cape Town
At last, the photographic works of the legendary film director Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau can be seen in the Schwules Museum.
The move and the expansion of Schwules Museum is realized through the kind support of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), Berlin’s cultural more
Das Schwule Museum bedankt sich bei seinen Spender_innen mit einer Ausstellung!
After an intensive two-year search for a suitable space, the museum is moving into a former printing house at Lützowstraße 73 in more
Current protective measures
The WomenLesbianTrans*Inter* BDSM community is fun, boisterous, open, warm-hearted and caring. It is also filthy, direct, blunt, and rough. It gets down more
With August 2020's Newsletter we present to you our planned program under restrictions, which does include one or another treat, the Object more
On 7 July 2018, Petra Gall passed away after long illness. We mourn together with her family and friends. The photographer and more
We are dismayed by the campaign initiated by EMMA Magazine and others against Tessa Ganserer, a member of Parliament. We condemn this more
Information and press images on the first program of the 12 Moons Film Lounge