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Works from the Kunstgewerbemuseum and Skulpturensammlung restituted to Oppenheim heirs
22.01.2018 - The SPK has worked successfully with the heirs to reach a good solution for Nazi-confiscated cultural property.
Soil Tests Begin for Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts
20.12.2017 - Next planning step initiated – First soil tests for the building site at the Kulturforum.
Michael Eissenhauer: “Comprehending the World in its Entirety “
21.11.2017 - On 25 November 2017 admission is free on the Museumsinsel and at the Kulturforum for the Activities Day “On the Way to the Humboldt Forum“. We spoke with Michael Eissenhauer,…
Generous Donation: Two Ruble Gold Coin Completes Set
14.11.2017 - Vladimir Matveyev's gift to the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is valuable in more than one way: the two-ruble gold coin of Catherine the Great completes the set…
"Kunst durch Kredit" – on the short article "Berliner Blamage" in DER SPIEGEL, issue 45/2017
07.11.2017 - The subject of Kunst durch Kredit [Art as collateral ] (De Gruyter, 2017) is the purchase of some 4,400 works of art from the holdings of the Dresdner Bank by the government of…
The Whole of Bach in One Mass
20.10.2017 - Conductor Ton Koopman on the Mass in B Minor, a treasure of the Staatsbibliothek that now also belongs to the Memory of the World – performed in three concerts by the Berlin…
Is East only East and West only West?
16.10.2017 - The New Neighbors have arrived on the Museumsinsel. Giving an evening lecture in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Yuko Nakama, a Japanese expert on Caspar David Friedrich, inquired into…
Repurchase of a Kirchner etching after restitution
16.08.2017 - The SPK has returned nine works of art to the heirs of the Jewish businessman and collector Eugen Moritz Buchthal. It has repurchased an etching by E. L. Kirchner for the…
Theo Eshetu and the Dahlem Museums on documenta14
14.08.2017 - Video artist Theo Eshetu has been following the move of the Dahlem museums into the Humboldt-Forum for a documentary film he is making. At documenta 14, he is showing Atlas…
Spectacular Exhibition in Fall 2018 to Reveal Europe’s Roots
10.08.2017 - The continent from below: in 2018, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte and the Verband der Landesarchäologen will be holding an exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau titled “Bewegte…