Multaka

Multaka: Museum as Meeting Point is an intercultural project initiated in 2015 by four history museums in Berlin with and for Arabic- and Persian-speaking migrants and refugees. Multaka (Arabic: meeting point) was designed as an innovative project for educational exchange between refugees and other visitors from the Middle East and North Africa. Visitor-centered discussions with migrants in their languages are focused on the historical origin and history of acquisition of cultural objects, including the visitors' own understanding of their country's cultural heritage. As a response to increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, a central aim of the project has been the inclusion of Muslim visitors into museums.

From 2019 onwards, the initial Multaka project has been joined in an international network of similar initiatives at 29 museums in the United Kingdom, Italy, Greece and Switzerland.