The Goethe-Institut is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations. Around 246,000 people take part in these German courses per year.
Headquarters in Munich
Goethe Institut Kuala Lumpur. It has since moved to an office building on the same road, next to the American embassy.
Goethe-Institut, Prague
Goethe Institut Oslo
Cultural diplomacy is a type of public diplomacy and soft power that includes the "exchange of ideas, information, art, language and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples in order to foster mutual understanding". The purpose of cultural diplomacy is for the people of a foreign nation to develop an understanding of the nation's ideals and institutions in an effort to build broad support for economic and political objectives. In essence "cultural diplomacy reveals the soul of a nation", which in turn creates influence. Public diplomacy has played an important role in advancing national security objectives.
A meeting of Japan, China, and the West by Shiba Kokan. c. late 18th – c. early 19th century
Migrant Mother (1936), Dorothea Lange
Fulbright Fellow Riccardo Giacconi was a pioneer of X-ray astronomy.
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