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The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled on fundamental legal questions regarding the jurisdiction of U.S. courts in the legal dispute over the Guelph Treasure. It overturned the decision of the lower courts, which had rejected the SPK's motion to dismiss, and referred the case back to the U.S. Distri

On 25 January 2021, the main building of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden will reopen digitally - after extensive refurbishment, modernisation and expansion. The structural and organisational measures have been completed and the Staatsbibliothek is ready to open the building. In his speech, Bun

With an exhibition and event project, the St. Matthäus Foundation, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation are jointly exploring the history of ideas of the Kulturforum for the first time - on 26 August there will be a festive opening in the open air - in

The Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin will be conserving the files of the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890). The documents on the complex acquisition history of the famous Troy collection will thus be secured for the long term. The project is being

With the help of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Cultural Foundation of the Federal States, the State Library acquires Wolf Biermann's private and professional archives and personal diaries. Like no other, the 84-year-old singer-songwriter's work has reflected t

Nigerian delegation visits Germany: guests view Humboldt Forum and objects in Dahlem As part of a visit to Germany organised by the Federal Foreign Office, the Nigerian partners and Sir David Adjaye, the architect of the "Edo State Museum of West African Art" (EMOWAA) being built in Benin City, visi

To coincide with the reopening of the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin on 21 August and the progress of construction work on the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, a booklet is being published that explores the possibilities of the Quarter of Art, Literature, Music and Science Berli

Based on the recommendations of the SPK Reform Commission, the SPK Foundation Board today adopted the key points of the structural reform. The autonomy of the museums, libraries, archives and research institutions belonging to the SPK is to be significantly strengthened. At the same time, they are t

One year ago, the collector Erich Marx died at the age of 99. Around 200 invited guests honoured the great collector and patron today at a memorial service at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, the museum whose creation and success Erich Marx had significantly supported with the

Collector and patron Heiner Pietzsch has died at the age of 91 - Parzinger: A great friend of the Nationalgalerie and pioneer of the museum for the 20th century Heiner Pietzsch, the well-known Berlin entrepreneur and great patron of the arts, is dead. He died on Tuesday evening in a Berlin clinic at