From the Centre to the “Green Belt”

Once the centre of West Berlin’s museum cosmos, the Dahlem museum precinct has grown a little quieter in recent years. But it didn’t take long for people to recognise the opportunity that these new “empty spaces” offered. In the coming years, overseen by six museums and institutes from the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, the complex will be transformed into Forschungscampus Dahlem (FC Dahlem), adding to the museum community in the south-west of Berlin, in which the Museum Europäischer Kulturen is already an active player.

With this, a bustling hub of research and knowledge transfer is emerging in Berlin’s green belt, where research processes will be showcased to the public and developed in a transparent manner, facilitating the participation of broad swathes of society (both local and internationally) in the development of new knowledge.