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Long-standing Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin passes away at the age of 81 - Parzinger: architect of the museum landscape in reunified Berlin Wolf-Dieter Dube, the long-serving Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, has died. He died in Berlin on Wednesday at the age

On 17 May 2022, the Goethe-Institut Angola presented the translation of the complete, multi-volume object list of the Angola collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin to the Angolan Ministry of Culture at a ceremony. In this way, the partners hope to contribute to greater transparency in the deba

Dr Sebastian Schmideler, currently a research assistant for children's and young adult literature and literary didactics at the University of Leipzig, will become the new head of the children's and young adult book department at the Berlin State Library on 2 September 2024. He succeeds Carola Pohlma

"Dagar Diaries", key sources on the Kingdom of Westphalia, previously secret records of a North Indian musical tradition, photographs from Sarajevo and 200,000 theatre programmes – four restoration projects at SPK institutions are part of the KEK funding programme ‘Preserving Written Cultural Herita

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has acquired Alexander von Humboldt's American Travel Diaries. Written partly in German and partly in French during his great voyage of discovery through Central and South America between 1799 and 1804, these unique and internationally highly significant his

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has drawn up an emergency red list for Iraq to alert law enforcement and customs authorities, as well as collectors and dealers worldwide, to illegally traded cultural artefacts from this country. Such red lists contain examples of object types and categor

In July 2025, the IAI was active in Guatemala: A network meeting strengthened the exchange on digital collections in Central America, indigenous literature was acquired at the book fair, and the library of the Centro de Estudios de las Culturas en Guatemala received a book donation. In July 2025, th

The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, whose area of responsibility includes the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, welcomes the concrete form of the cooperation agreement with the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: "This will not only improve the local service in a tar

Creating structures for a young field of research - sharing knowledge worldwide. Collaboration, innovation and sustainability are at the centre of the renewed partnership for provenance research on Asian art The National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institut

The IAI Library has the world’s most complete collection of publications from the unique Cuban publishing house Ediciones Vigía, where each book appears as a handmade work of art. The library of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) holds with ist more than 300 titles the world’s largest collectio