Aargau with a new head of culture
The Aargau cantonal government has appointed the former cantonal archaeologist Georg Matter as the new head of the Culture Division in the Department of Education, Culture and Sport (BKS). He succeeds Thomas Pauli-Gabi, who has been appointed Director of the Bern Historical Museum.
Georg Matter has been Deputy Head of the Culture Department since February 2018. Before joining the canton, he was a founding member and member of the management board of ProSpect GmbH in Reinach for ten years.
Georg Matter studied prehistory and early history, medieval archaeology and classical archaeology at the Universities of Basel and Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany). In 2008, he completed his doctorate at the Institut d'Archéologie et des Sciences de l'Antiquité (IASA) at the University of Lausanne. In 2012, he completed a CAS certificate course at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland on the fundamentals of business administration.
