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How should we deal with museum objects that were looted or acquired in colonial contexts? What say do communities of origin have in the matter, and how can their perspectives be made visible? Verena Rodatus and Maria Ellendorff discuss their work at the Ethnological Museum.

29.05.2024 Even a weather god needs a rain cape Article Three collections are being cleared out of the south wing of the Pergamon Museum. The museum has been closed since October 2023, and major refurbishment work is due to begin at the end of the year. This means that much of the collection – thoug

Music specialist Thomas MacMillan is a trainee at the Musical Instrument Museum. Here, he answers your questions about acrylic instruments, explains why he needs a Radiohead detox, and discusses which is more fun: making music or researching it?

Holger Ehrhardt is a professor of German studies at the University of Kassel, specialising in the ‘Works and Influence of the Brothers Grimm’. His research frequently takes him to Berlin, as this is where the estate of the two giants of fairy-tale literature, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, is held. In thi

The musicologist, conservator and curator Emanuele Marconi took over from Conny Restle on 15 July 2024, following her retirement at the end of 2023. We met him for an interview.

On 18 July 2024, a ceremony was held at the plaster casting workshop of the Berlin State Museums, attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Guatemala, H.E. Jorge Alfredo Lemcke Arevalo, to mark the handover of two replicas to the Guatemalan Museo Comunitario Yalambojoch. The plaster casts of obj

Berlin isn’t the centre of the universe – there are exciting exhibition projects in other federal states too, for example in Thuringia. To introduce these to Berliners, the ‘Weimar Room’ has now been officially opened at the State Library on Unter den Linden

Hidden Gems today with Maximilian Schulz, caretaker at the Secret State Archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

Music specialist Thomas MacMillan is a trainee at the Musical Instrument Museum. Here, he answers your questions about acrylic instruments, explains why he needs a Radiohead detox, and discusses which is more fun: making music or researching it?

Holger Ehrhardt is a professor of German studies at the University of Kassel, specialising in the ‘Works and Influence of the Brothers Grimm’. His research frequently takes him to Berlin, as this is where the estate of the two giants of fairy-tale literature, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, is held. In thi