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At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appointed Dr Stefan Weber as the new Director of the Museum of Islamic Art at the National Museums in Berlin. From 1 February 2009, the 41-year-old will be the immediate successor to the current Director, Prof.

The Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy today awarded Hermann Parzinger the Grand Cross of the Order of Alfonso X the Wise (Gran Cruz de Alfonso X el Sabio) in Segovia. This is one of the highest Spanish honours for services to research, literature, art and education. Parzinger received the honour

museum4punkt0, the Germany-wide network for digital education led by the SPK, is continuing its projects in 2022. Since 2017, teams from a wide range of institutions have been developing and testing closely networked digital education programmes. A hybrid conference with a showcase on 1 and 2 Novemb

Forty-four objects of late antique Byzantine everyday culture were recently identified in Leipzig as belonging to the Berlin Museum of Byzantine Art and are now returning to the Bode Museum. The pieces had been transported to the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War and were mistakenly

Berlin, Munich and Dresden: Restituted works from the collection of Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann handed over A total of five works of art from several German museums were handed over to the heirs of the Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus today. The Prussian Cultura

12.01.2026 On the museum bus through Maharashtra The SPK and the World (3) Article SPK President Marion Ackermann writes in her column about the SPK’s international outlook. It appears regularly in *Politik & Kultur*, the newspaper of the German Cultural Council. Photo: SPK / photothek / Thomas Köhl

At the end of December 2011, the Presidium of the Leopoldina elected Hermann Parzinger, the archaeologist, prehistorian and President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, as a new member of the Academy on the recommendation of the Academy members. He is a member of the Cultural Studies Sect

Before the Second World War, the Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin owned over 400 works by the photographer Ottomar Anschütz. A large part of these are considered lost. Recently, Anschütz's great-grandson gave the museum six photographs of wolves and foxes taken in 1886. Holger Anschütz

Thousands of "Sunday excursionists" attended concerts, performances, readings, guided tours and church services yesterday and dined at the summer table in Sigismundstraße. All neighbouring residents had opened their gardens and green spaces to visitors as part of the cultural summer festival. The co

On 15 January 2020, the public competitions of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will begin on 15 January 2020. subjects of singing and string quartet. To kick things off 15 January there will also be an espresso concert with the first prize winner of the competition 2019 will t