Gay Museum *
The Schwules Museum—known in English as the Gay Museum—opened in 1985 and was the first museum in the world dedicated to gay history. What you’re stepping into now is the result of decades of institution-building around LGBTQ+ memory in Berlin. The museum began at Mehringdamm 61, founded in 1985 after a summer 1984 exhibition, “Eldorado - Homosexual Women and Men in Berlin 1850-1950,” staged at the Märkisches Museum and based on recent research. Since the summer of 2013, the museum has been housed in a former printing factory at Lützowstraße 73, with 1,600 square metres of space—more than doubling its exhibition room. Its archive reaches back to periodicals from 1896, and the library holds about 20,000 books on homosexuality. …
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