As a project of the Berlin Leben Foundation, URBAN NATION aims to make urban and street art visible and accessible to everyone through a variety of offerings. Participation and own creativity are asked for and strengthened in our educational formats.
Therefore URBAN NATION is more than a museum. With its diverse programming, URBAN NATION links indoor and outdoor space – museum and city – and promotes dialogue between art and neighborhood. The project Stadtraum!Plus of the Stiftung Berliner Leben facilitates the exchange between Berlin actors and URBAN NATION and creates a variety of educational opportunities.
URBAN NATION is a place of cultural education with workshops and other innovative educational formats. We are active in the museum, in the museum’s workshop and throughout the city – e.g. through participatory mural designs.
Cities are places of migration, of arriving, staying and leaving. They offer spaces in which people with their cultural identities and individual life stories meet, develop with each other and allow something new to emerge. In return, this shapes the […]
On October 20, there was a lot of puzzling, creative crafting and, above all, a lot of discovering. During a workshop and a visit to the exhibition TALKING… & OTHER BANANA SKINS, students were able to learn about the technique […]
During their study trip on Thursday, 13 October 2022, students of year 13 at the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück became part of the artistic research of Viennese performance artist Denise Ackerl. In the performance @danceministerium_berlin, she explored multi-layered questions of political, professional, […]
For the Kultursommerfestival Draußenstadt uand as part of the program Stadtraum!Plus, the URBAN NATION Museum offered a workshop with Akte One for the Theodor-Heuss-Library in Schöneberg at the end of August. In the open workshop at the Mittelpunktbibliothek Schöneberg, children […]
For two weeks during the summer vacations, the URBAN NATION Museum welcomed young people who had just arrived from Ukraine at Berlin’s Lomonosov Schools. The cooperation took place within the framework of the program Stadtraum!Plus and enabled a diverse range […]
On the occasion of the UNARTIG – street & art festival there have been quite a few workshops with friends and project partners of the Stiftung Berliner Leben and the URBAN NATION Museum: “Rolling Studio” by the Little Friends of […]
Six years ago, the concept of the Open Family Apartments in the district of Spandau was born. There, “the vision of a more just and safe life for local people” was developed. On the occasion of the fifth anniversary, the […]
Global learning affects all areas of life, with the goal of initiating different and unusual learning processes: How can street art and street play contribute to this? On the afternoon of April 29, 2022, multipliers from the field of education […]
Every year, the students and future educators of the Anna Freund School develop preventive offers. This time, on October 29, 2021, came the project group “prejudice-conscious rapedagogy”. Here the future educators learn to teach the young people a conscious approach to the culture of hip hop.
As a part of the program Stadtraum!Plus, the URBAN NATION, the Pallasseum, the Spreewald Elementary School, and the sculptor Thomas Bratzke invited a group of 12 children to understand, reflect and rethink a residential ensemble.
