Haus der Kulturen der Welt
(HKW)
Schoolchildren, students, retirees, unemployed persons and recipients of ALG II, recipients under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act and severely disabled persons are entitled to reduced prices on presentation of proof.
Visitors who are holders of mark B disability cards and comparable international IDs are entitled to a free ticket to all events for one accompanying person.
Please also note special reduced admission for selected programmes.
Free entry on Mondays.
Equipment for visually impaired
Equipment for blind people
Elevators accessible to wheelchairs
Parking for people with disabilities
WC accessible to wheelchairs
Parking available
Persons with limited mobility and wheelchair users
- Two disabled parking spots are located in front of the main lobby’s right entrance; another is on the left, next to the gate in front of the eastern driveway to the building.
- HKW has barrier-free, stepless entrances to the main lobby. Other barrier-free entrances are located on the west and north sides of the building.
- The entrances to the main lobby on the south side of the building have wheelchair-height intercom systems.
- A barrier-free elevator leads to the basement and mezzanine. Another elevator on the mezzanine level leads to the roof terrace. The elevators are equipped with tactile writing.
- Two all gender restroom facilities for people with reduced mobility are located in both the basement and on the mezzanine level.
- Wheelchairs are available on loan from the counter.
Persons who are partially sighted or blind
- At the main entrance of HKW, a tactile model offers orientation about the building levels. Information about the architecture of the building and its surroundings are provided in braille and are marked by strong visual contrasts.
- Glass doors are labeled with safety markings.
- The elevators are equipped with braille panels and the stops are announced.
- We recommend that guests wear FFP2 masks.
- Please keep your distance.
- No admission for persons with cold symptoms.
S+U Hauptbahnhof
S+U Brandenburger Tor
U Bundestag
Bus 100
Boat station Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) is guided by the quest for strategies of how to live and better inhabit this world together. It is a house in which cultures of conviviality and hospitality are sown, nurtured to blossoming, and disseminated. It is a physical and affective space in which everyone has the possibility of breathing. To breathe and let breathe. A house in which respect for living and non-living beings is fundamental and shapes our understanding of cultures.
HKW highlights the notion of ›Welt‹ in its name. It proposes concepts of the world that embrace pluralities of cultures, epistemologies, sociopolitics, spiritualities, and ways of being in the world. This plurality of ›worlds‹ manifests itself in the deliberations on and acknowledgement of the malleability and processuality of the worlds we have historically shaped and continue to shape. The world is not a noun, but a verb: to unworld, to world, and to reworld.
Berlin is host to citizens from 170 nations from around the world, and these people and their communities are fundamental in shaping HKW, not as subjects or visitors only, but as fellow travellers and co-makers of the programme. The programme is anchored around migrant-situated knowledges and the realities of the plethora of beings and histories that constitute our worlds today. The task at hand is to make HKW a house of multiplicities and international encounters. These cultures are lived and experienced rather than othered, or merely displayed.
In an era in which humanity is questioned, put to the test, and negated around the world through the perpetration of varying forms of injustice, HKW adopts the emancipatory maxim of the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) Tout Moun Se Moun to emphasize the spirit in which we work. It proclaims that every person is a human being, that we are all equal before the law, and that no human life is more important than another. Also embedded in Tout Moun Se Moun is the acknowledgement of the worlds of animal, plant, fungi, single and multicellular species, as well as non-living species that, too, are entitled to their spaces and co-existence in our world.
In, around, and associated with Haus der Kulturen der Welt there is no space for, nor tolerance towards, hate speech or hate actions of any kind. There is no space for ageism, anti-Semitism, gender discrimination, homophobia, Islamophobia, racism, sexism, transphobia, xenophobia, and the like. HKW shall be a space in which love, respect, and generosity are realised through daily practice.