The starting point for this book is the conversation on mental health. The conversations capture a specific set of circumstances in Berlin from the years 2021 and 2022. Interlocutors from the fields of science, culture and politics and activist contexts reflect on and articulate their experiences. They render one thing evident: speaking about mental health means also speaking about society. These conversations emerged from a cooperation between the Gropius Bau and Mindscapes, Wellcome's international cultural programme on mental health. Introductory texts discuss the processes through which museums can open up towards society and ask how these institutions can become socially relevant places capable of effecting change. Text: Priya Basil, Stephanie Rosenthal, Christine Wong Yap