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If I Were King or Queen…
Young Visions from Neukölln: eleven young people on today's injustices and a fairer future. Visitors can take a seat on the throne. In BERLIN GLOBAL.
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The throne in this room has a toilet seat built into it. Sit down, and the young people who made the room invite you to reject what's wrong with the world and work out your own fixes. The building is a rebuilt royal palace, and this is the throne it ended up with.
Eleven children and teenagers from Neukölln made it with the Bürgerstiftung Neukölln, in one of three Open Spaces that BERLIN GLOBAL hands to Berlin groups for about 18 months. Their comments and wishes for the future hide behind small doors in a wall. You also hear 16 sound portraits of Neuköllners on their ties to Berlin and other places, and five video clips on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, linked by the hope for a peaceful solution.
It's one room, Interconnection, on the first floor, and comes with the €9 BERLIN GLOBAL ticket (free up to 18). Texts are in German and English, and it's step-free. Book online or at the foyer box office; last entry is 17:30.
Look for
The toilet-seat throne
Look for the throne with a toilet seat fitted into it, where you sit to think through the world's small and large problems and propose your own solutions.
The wall of small doors
Open the little doors in the wall to find the eleven young Neuköllners' comments and wishes for the future, an unvarnished look at their everyday lives, city and politics.
The 16 sound portraits
Neuköllners talk about their connections to Berlin and to other places in the world.
Five video clips on Israel and Palestine
Different perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which for all their differences share the effort toward a peaceful solution.
Good for
- An Hour Or Less
- Going Solo
- Locals Who've Seen It All
Skip if
You want art or historic objects: this room is young people's opinions, sound portraits and video clips.
With kids
The museum recommends it from age 12, and entry is free up to 18. One part is video on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Free in the same building
- Flashbacks36 objects placed throughout the building in unconventional settings, each recalling a moment from the site's history.
- History of the SiteFree displays covering 800 years of Schlossplatz, from medieval cellars and palace sculptures to the Palace of the Republic, with original objects and media stations.
- Impressions. The Humboldt BrothersFree display on Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt's lives, curiosity and cosmopolitan worldview, in the ground-floor stairwell hall.
- Palace CellarFree walk through the archaeological remains of a medieval monastery and the original palace foundations beneath the building.
- The Gate of SanchiFree full-scale replica of the East Gate of the Great Stupa of Sanchi, a UNESCO World Heritage site in India, installed outside on the Lustgarten side.
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Image credits
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- If I Were King or Queen…Stadtmuseum Berlin | Design: Groupe Dejour
- A Country in a Container – The Disposal of East German State SymbolsCourtesy of DDR Museum
- Founded on Antiquity: Berlin's First MuseumPhoto: Johannes Laurentius
- Nature and German History. Faith – Biology – PowerCourtesy of Deutsches Historisches Museum
- Humboldt ForumMike Peel / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- DDR MuseumAndreas Praefcke / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0
- Altes MuseumJean-Pierre Dalbéra / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
- Deutsches Historisches MuseumAvda / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Alte NationalgalerieManfred Brückels / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain