Forschungscampus Dahlem

In the location's words:

What is the Dahlem Research Campus?

A new type of research and presentation site, the Dahlem Research Campus, is being created at the Dahlem museum site. It is characterized by the cross-disciplinary and cross-collection cooperation of various institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK).

Seven institutions from the SPK cosmos, some of which are located at the Dahlem site, have joined forces to form the Dahlem Research Campus. These include the Ethnological Museum, the Museum of Asian Art, the Museum of European Cultures, the Institute for Museum Research, the Art Library, the Gipsformerei and the Rathgen Research Laboratory of the National Museums in Berlin as well as the Ibero-American Institute.

The Dahlem Research Campus is more than just a research location: it sees itself as a network that develops, presents and communicates new knowledge on material and immaterial cultures in the Dahlem collections by linking different competencies and perspectives. The Dahlem Research Campus is based on the attitude of making research processes visible, making them transparent and enabling the participation of different interest groups in the development of new knowledge: Different forms of knowledge are treated equally and considered together at the Dahlem Research Campus, and traditional knowledge hierarchies are abolished.

The terms CULTURES RESEARCHING THINGS KNOWING form the coordinate system for the work of the Dahlem Research Campus: they reflect different facets of the work on the Dahlem collections and interact with each other: things carry knowledge within them, knowledge is at the same time a motor for cultures and contributes to the creation of new things. Research on and with cultures works in different directions, as does the relationship between research and things.

The Dahlem Research Campus also calls itself "FC Dahlem", thus underlining the playful approach that characterizes the production and communication of knowledge. FC Dahlem aims to break down the hierarchies between the knowledge systems and contribute to equal cooperation on research issues.

The Dahlem Research Campus has a strategic partnership with the Freie Universität Berlin: Together, new approaches to learning and teaching are being developed and tested for collection-based research at the Dahlem site.

The Dahlem Research Campus wants to break new ground in exhibition design with an exhibition workshop: In a collaborative process, an exhibition on the key topic of time will be developed together with academic and non-academic guests. The exhibition workshop at the Dahlem Research Campus is funded by the Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz.