Multaka – Glassworks Workshops: Museums as Spaces of Participation and Intercultural Dialogue

The Multaka Workshops transform museum collections into platforms for active participation, intercultural dialogue, and shared learning. Since 2016, we have been in collaboration with Berlin State Museums—including the Bode Museum, Altes Museum, and Neues Museum. The program offers four annual hands-on workshops combining guided museum visits with practical glassmaking.

Participants—particularly individuals with migration and refugee backgrounds—engage directly with cultural heritage through making. Historical themes such as light, memory, ornament, and image-making are explored in the museum and translated into material practice in the studio.

The program shifts the role of museums from spaces of observation to spaces of co-creation, enabling participants to contribute their own perspectives to cultural discourse.