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At the end of the 50th year of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Germany's largest cultural institution can look back on the most successful year in its history. With an increase of around 20 per cent compared to the previous year, the number of visitors to the National Museums in Berlin ro

The Berlin Egyptologist and Orientalist Prof Dr Verena Lepper has received one of the most important awards in the world of research, the ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). She now has access to funding for her research project "Localising 4000 Years of Cultural History. Te

State Library's acquisition budget increases - Pergamon Museum construction schedule secured - Plaster moulding shop to be expanded - Museum 4.0 launched At the end of last week, the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approved additional funding for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. T

Vaccination will take place from 16 to 19 February 2022 at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin at Potsdamer Platz, Potsdamer Straße 33. Registration via Doctolib: https://www.doctolib.de/institut/berlin/aino Vaccination protects - even culture. That's why the SPK, together with Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH,

In July 2017, Prof Dr Jürgen Kloosterhuis will retire from his position as Director of the Prussian Secret State Archives after more than 20 years. He will be succeeded by Prof Dr Ulrike Höroldt, who currently heads the State Archives of Saxony-Anhalt. This was decided unanimously yesterday by the B

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned a friendship album from the Reformation period with an entry by Philipp Melanchthon to the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt. In the Luther House in Wittenberg, where it was stolen in 1976, it will once again be part of the perma

Leni Riefenstahl's estate - donated to the SPK in 2018 in disorganised boxes containing photos, films, notes, letters, manuscripts and other documents - has since been successively processed and made accessible for use. The holdings harbour enormous research potential. At the same time, the collecti

With around 111.6 million visits, the museums maintained the high level of 2016. The museums that took part in the survey reported around 8,800 special exhibitions, which is almost the same number as the previous year. The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 111,662,229 visits in

Annual reception at the James-Simon-Galerie - Parzinger: Outstanding visitor balance for 2023 - Attractive exhibition programme this year - Expansion of international collaborations - Reform on the home straight Over 200 guests from politics, culture, business, science and society attended the annua

The painting "Dragoner-Regiment von Borke Nr 7" (1864) by Friedrich Wilhelm Meyerheim was kept in the Nationalgalerie as so-called foreign property and was also published as such. In the course of research by the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM), it has now been clearly identified as belonging to