Question street names?!

To mark International Museum Day 2026, the Mitte Museum is taking this question out into the urban space.

At three locations in the Mitte district, participants will collectively explore the lives of people after whom streets and squares are named—and whose legacies are not without controversy.

At the Luther Bridge, they ask: Should Martin Luther, as an integral part of German history, continue to be present in the urban landscape without question—or must his anti-Semitic and ableist statements also be acknowledged? What criticism is fair when it comes to historical figures?

At Magnus-Hirschfeld-Ufer, they commemorate a gay Jewish scientist whose groundbreaking work in sexology met a violent end in Nazi Germany. At the same time, Hirschfeld was sympathetic to eugenics—how do we deal with such ambivalences?

Finally, at Martha-Ndumbe-Platz, everyone is looking at a renaming that was already completed in 2025. Martha N’dumbe was a Black German woman and a victim of National Socialism. How do local residents perceive the new name today?

Meeting point: Lutherbrücke, 10557 Berlin.

Admission is free; registration is not required.

IN GERMAN