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In response to the press release issued by the Central Council of the African Community, the Initiative of Black People in Germany and the NGO alliances "No Humboldt 21!" and "Genocide is not time-barred!" on 17 March 2014: "Federal government plans to deport human remains from the colonial era", th

The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, today unanimously made far-reaching personnel decisions for the National Museums in Berlin and the Berlin State Library The Museum of the Ancient Near East at the Staatliche

Thorsten Strauß, Global Head of Art, Culture & Sports at Deutsche Bank AG, continues to head the Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage. He was unanimously confirmed as Chairman last week and was already involved in the previous Museum Island Board of Trustees. Anne Reidt, Head of the Cultu

SPK programme initiative to mark the 250th anniversary of US Independence, featuring exhibition installations, special presentations, talks, discussions, conferences and workshops 4 July 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. In this document, in 1776, the thirteen B

The "Benin bronzes" officially belong to Nigeria again. About a third of the transferred objects will remain on loan in Berlin and will be exhibited in the Humboldt Forum. On 25 august 2022, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director Ge

The foundation stone for the central reading room of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden is being laid today in the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and State Secretary Lütke Daldrup, who is standing in for the Federal Minister of Building Wolfgang Tiefensee. The new bui

With its numerous scientific and cultural institutions, Berlin sets the standard for new developments in the digital world. Modern information and communication technologies, embedded systems and the "Internet of Things" are opening up new opportunities for Berlin as a "city of the future". As part

The participants of this year's meeting of the Benin Dialogue Group agreed last Friday that a new museum with a regularly changing exhibition of works of art from the former Kingdom of Benin should be established in Benin City. European and Nigerian museums will provide works of art on loan for this

Video artist Theo Eshetu has been following the move of the Dahlem museums into the Humboldt-Forum for a documentary film he is making. At documenta 14, he is showing Atlas Fractured, an expansive installation that projects video onto a banner which originally hung over the entrance to the Dahlem mu

The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation yesterday approved the merger of the Museums of East Asian Art and Indian Art. In future, they will be run as departments of the new "Museum of Asian Art". Their unification will strengthen the importance of both collections through