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Over the next few years, the Dahlem Research Campus will be established at the Dahlem museum site. It is characterised by the cross-disciplinary and cross-collection collaboration of various institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in cooperation with external partners such as the Free University and the Technical University. On Friday, 7 October, they are jointly organising a day of action and inviting interested visitors to get to know the diverse activities of the Dahlem Research Campus on site from 2 pm under the motto "It's about time!".

During the day of action, visitors can actively participate in an exhibition workshop on "Time and Temporality" or develop their own visions for the Dahlem Research Campus and build models for the future. Two workshops invite visitors to take a sensory approach to the topic of time: What does taste have to do with time? Has the smell of money changed over time? Co-operation partners will also be presenting themselves, such as the Technical University with its "Reconfiguring the Past" project. In addition, behind-the-scenes tours will allow visitors to familiarise themselves with a restoration route and its various stations. Finally, visitors can learn more about current research projects at a science slam.

Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, says: "Something is happening in Dahlem, we are working together with a number of partners from the university and non-university scientific sector to establish the research campus. With the day of action, we are also inviting visitors to get actively involved and explore the possibilities of the research campus. I would like to take this opportunity to expressly thank the Prussian Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees, which is providing significant support for the development of the Dahlem Research Campus.

For many years, various museums of the National Museums in Berlin presented their exhibitions at the Dahlem site. With reunification and the construction of the Humboldt Forum in the Berlin Palace, the function and layout of the Dahlem museum complex with its striking buildings by Bruno Paul and Fritz Bornemann also changed. The exhibitions of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art were closed to the public in 2017. The Museum of European Cultures, however, is still a very active player at the site.

Today, research plays a prominent role at the Dahlem site. For the past two years, a group of seven institutions from the SPK cosmos - including the Ethnological Museum, the Museum of Asian Art, the Museum of European Cultures, the Institute for Museum Research, the Art Library, the Rathgen Research Laboratory and the Ibero-American Institute - have been working on the question of how to make research more tangible. The result is the Dahlem Research Campus, with which the SPK gives the public a look behind the scenes of its engine room: How does research work in cultural institutions? How does a museum depot work? What happens when objects are restored? Who are the people behind the scientific results? At the same time, the aim here is to establish research that transcends disciplinary boundaries, values knowledge of all kinds, takes participation seriously and sees dialogue with the public as an opportunity. At the centre of this are the four keywords Cultures Research Things Knowledge.

Programme Action Day

Upper foyer

• Info corner on the Dahlem Research Campus
• Visitor survey & hands-on activities (model making)
• Presentation "Reconfiguring the Past" by the Department of Architecture at TU Berlin together with FC Dahlem
• 14:15 / 15:15 / 16:15 / 17:15: Introduction to the exhibition "wieder.vereint"
• 14:00 - 14:30: Kick-off: FC Dahlem - It's about time
• 14:30 - 15:15: Guided tour "Behind the scenes...of the restoration route"
• 15:30 - 16:30: Science Slam Part I
• 16:30 - 17:30: Guided tour of the exhibition "We are from here" at the Museum of European Cultures
• 17:30 - 18:30: Science Slam Part II

Lower foyer

- Open exhibition workshop on the topic of "Time & Temporality": Share your ideas with us and design your own exhibition
- Interview station on the topic of "Time"
- 14:30 - 15:30: "Timeline Salad" workshop
- 16:30 - 17:30: "The Scent of Money" workshop

Café eßkultur offers food and drinks.

From 18:30 onwards, the event ends with wine and drinks.

The exhibition workshop of the Dahlem Research Campus is sponsored by the Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

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