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The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation was recently able to hand over seventeen books and brochures from the lost private library of Leo Baeck to his granddaughter Marianne C. Dreyfus, who now lives in New York. The objects, whose provenance could only be discovered through special research, were

Conference organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as part of the Berlin Year of Science 2010 "Berlin - Capital for Science" On 9 and 10 December 2010, the conference "Knowledge Archives in Dialogue with Science and Society" took place at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. As an institut

The chamber concert series 'Notturno' will conclude its season in the open air on 16 June. An ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will perform trio compositions for clarinet, viola and piano by Max Bruch, Jean Françaix, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Leo Smit in the garden of the Mus

A quartet from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will kick off the 'Notturno' nightly chamber concerts at the Neues Museum on Museum Island on 17 November. The unusual ensemble, consisting of Olga Polonsky (violin), Stephan Mörth (clarinet), Sara Minemoto (cello) and Jonathan Aner (piano), wi

The SPK's museums, libraries and archives have been closed to the public for more than a month. The first steps towards reopening will be taken from 4 May 2020: In the State Library, the Ibero-American Institute and the State Institute for Music Research, media can once again be collected and return

Researching and Documenting Provenance The goal of provenance research is to clarify the origins of objects. It is a cross-disciplinary task for all the Foundation’s institutions. In several research projects, determining provenance is the sole task. The Spectrum of Tasks in Provenance Research Prov

Felix Ostrowski has been the head of the Presentation and Information Management section of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin since September. After graduating in technical communication and working at the University Library Center of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Institute of Library and Information

The 42nd volume of the yearbook presents the Foundation's activities in 2005, but also deals with topics that will remain relevant over a longer period of time: for example, it is dedicated to the Foundation's losses during and after the Second World War. Many of the Berlin museums' treasures looted

Europe's cultural and scientific heritage is preserved in numerous national cultural institutions. The EU has launched the "Europeana" project to facilitate access to this heritage. The internet portal www.europeana.eu links to around 12 million digital objects to date and is set to be significantly

A special exhibition of the Museum of Islamic Art of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Oriental Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz. From 14 July - 15 October 2017 at the Pergamonmuseum, Museum Island Berlin. Using outstanding manuscri