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title: "Citizens with Equal Rights"
date: 2022-11-10
last_modified: 2023-02-27T13:39:08+01:00
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url: "https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/exhibition/citizens-with-equal-rights"
description: "Open Space | Berlin Exhibition at the Humboldt Forum"
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# Citizens with Equal Rights

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![Portraits von Menschen in Schwarz-Weiß auf ausgedrucktem Papier vor blauer Wand](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MIS_5479-1920x1280-1.jpg)

![Hängende Plakate auf denen steht: Sinti und Roma: Wer sind wir? ](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MIS_5517-1920x1280-1.jpg)

![Zwei Besucher:innen schauen auf den Bildschirm auf der blauen Wand der Freifläche, dort wird eine Doku über die Geschichte der Sinti und Roma gezeigt](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MIS_5929-1920x1280-1.jpg)

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“Citizens with Equal Rights” is an exhibition by the Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma on an Open Space in the room “Berlin Images”of BERLIN GLOBAL.

**Location**
Berlin Exhibition at the Humboldt Forum
Schlossplatz
10178 Berlin

**Entry**
7,00 € / 0,00 € (reduced)

**Opening Hours**
Mo + Wed – Sun | 10.30 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.
Tue | closed

Last admission is at 5.15 p.m.

**Special Opening Hours**
Mon | 20.03.23 | 10:30 a.m. – 01:30 p.m.
due to an internal event

It explores the history of Berlin’s Sinti and Roma since the Weimar Republic, both in a European context and through personal biographies. A central focus is the Sinti and Roma civil rights movement: for recognition of the Holocaust, against antiziganism, and for a self-evident normality as citizens with equal rights. Beyond a historical perspective, the exhibition features twelve contemporary portraits from the “[RomaRising](https://www.romarising.com/)” photo series by Chad Evans Wyatt, as well as the Grimme Prize–winning [RomArchive](https://www.romarchive.eu/de/).

![Blick auf die Freifläche mit hängenden Leinwänden, auf dem Text zu sehen ist und ein blaues Kleid](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BG_Gleichberechtigte-Buerger_innen_5-c-Dokuzentrum-Deutscher-Sinti-und-Roma-KPB-Berlin-Stadtmuseum-Berlin-Foto-Michael-Setzpfandt-1920x1280-1-300x200.jpg)

Sinti and Roma have lived in Germany for over 600 years and were recognised as regular citizens in Berlin and elsewhere until the 1930s. Under the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws, the Nazi regime subjected Sinti and Roma to the same discriminatory and exclusionary provisions as the Jewish population. A few years later, Sinti and Roma were deported to concentration and extermination camps. In occupied Europe, about 500,000 people fell victim to the Holocaust against the Sinti and Roma.

Nevertheless, survivors and their descendants had to fight for decades for recognition of the Holocaust against the minority. It was not until 2012 that the civil rights movement achieved an important step towards public visibility with the inauguration of the central memorial in Berlin to the Sinti and Roma of Europe murdered under National Socialism. But structural and societal prejudices and antiziganism still persist. Rejecting this ongoing everyday discrimination, the Open Space exhibition demands recognition of Sinti and Roma as “Citizens with Equal Rights” – as a matter of course.

The Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma, founded in 1997, emerged from decades of civil rights work. It advocates for the equal participation of the minority. At the same time, it acts as a specialised academic institution for researching and documenting the history of the Sinti and Roma, for political education work and for contemporary art and cultural projects. The Open Space is curated by André Raatzsch and Jan Kreutz.

![Raumansicht der Freiflächen-Ausstellung, Besucher:innen beugen sich über die Texte](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MIS_5486-1920x1280-1-300x200.jpg)

![](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Freiflaechen_07_853p-300x200.jpg)

### Open Spaces

The Open Spaces are three areas of the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition developed by initiatives, organisations and independent groups. The objective is to increase the visibility of unknown, underrepresented and activist perspectives and issues. The projects are selected by an independent jury, then realised over a period of 9 months in cooperation with the Stadtmuseum Berlin. Afterwards, the exhibitions are shown for one year as part of BERLIN GLOBAL.

[ Find out more here!](https://staging.stadtmuseum.de/en/open-spaces)

## Info & Service

##### Opening Hours

Mon + Wed – Sun | 10.30 am – 6.30 pm
Tue | closed

Last admission is at 5.30 pm

##### Special Opening Hours

Thu, 25 June 2026 (private event) | 11.30 – 18.30 pm
Sat, 3 October 2026 (German Unity Day) | 10.30 am – 6.30 pm

Last admission is at 5.30 pm

##### Closing Times

Due to maintenance work, the exhibition will be **closed from 4 to 6 May 2026**. On **7 and 8 May 2026**, **parts of the exhibition may be closed** due to maintenance work. The exhibition will reopen as normal on 9 May 2026.

On **20 May 2026**, the exhibition will close at 2.30 pm due to an internal event.

Thank you for your understanding.

##### Directions

Schlossplatz
10178 Berlin

[ Google Maps](https://g.page/humboldtforum?share)

[ Bus & Train](https://www.bvg.de/en/connections/connection-search)

##### Contact

For ticketing and service requests, please contact the Humboldt Forum [Visitor Services](https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/contact-us/):
+49 30 9921 189 89
Mo – Fri, 10 a.m.– 6 p.m.

## Tickets

##### Day Ticket

9 euros / 0 euros (reduced)

[   Ticketshop ](https://tickets.humboldtforum.org/#/tickets/time?museum_id=1&exhibition_id=1&group=day)

##### Humboldt Forum Combi Ticket

14 euros / 7 euros (reduced)
Two-day ticket: 18 euros / 9 euros (reduced)
Day group ticket: 50 euros

[   Ticketshop ](https://tickets.humboldtforum.org/#/tickets/time?museum_id=1&exhibition_id=1&group=day)

### Free admission: Solidarity-based model

Free admission for children and adolescents up to 18 years of age, for students, international students, persons with an electronic residence permit (eAT), FSJ volunteers, recipients of transfer payments (ALG I / Bürgergeld) or persons with severe disabilities (at least 50%), Personal Assistants of persons with severe disabilities (at least 50%), holders of the MuseumsPass Berlin, press, partner institutions, sponsors and members of the support associations, ICOM members. Until the end of the exhibition project ‘Beziehungsweise Familie’ (Family Matters) at the Humboldt Forum, holders of a valid ticket for the Humboldt Forum will receive free admission to the Museum Knoblauchhaus.

### Humboldt Forum Combi Ticket

The Humboldt Forum Combi Ticket is valid for BERLIN GLOBAL, the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art, as well as other temporary exhibitions at the Humboldt Forum. The ticket is also valid for the special exhibition ‘Beziehungsweise Familie’ (Relationship or Family) with interventions at the Humboldt Forum and the Museum Knoblauchhaus in the Nikolaiviertel.

**Day ticket**
Validity: 1 day according to the selected date

**Two-day ticket**
Validity: 2 days according to the selected date + the following day

**Day group ticket**
Validity: 1 day according to the selected date, up to 5 adults, with or without children

### Special price 5 euros

for Ehrenamts-Card holders, members of the Theater Gemeinde Berlin and with the WelcomeCard 2023