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In February 2026, researchers, librarians, and data specialists came together at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) to reassess the role of knowledge infrastructures in international and interdisciplinary research in light of geopolitical tensions, debates over data sovereignty, and the acceler

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 Ethnological Museum with its two locations in the Humboldt Forum and in Dahlem will have a new director from mid-January The current Director of the Ethnological Collection of the Museum Natur und Mensch in Freiburg, Tina Brüderlin, will in future head the Ethnological Museum of the National Mus

Did autographs from the collection of David Salomon, an antiquarian murdered in Auschwitz in 1943, enter the Adam Collection lawfully? A provenance research project is investigating whether there is any Nazi-looted property in the Gedächtnis Preußen collection

With a ceremony attended by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit and Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, the Neues Museum reopens its doors tomorrow for the first time in seventy years. From 17 October, the public is invited to visit the building, which was a war

From 4 June 2027, all the buildings on Berlin’s Museum Island will finally be open. The Pergamon Altar, Islamic art and Babylonian highlights will then be on display once again. The Pergamon Museum, located on Berlin’s Museum Island – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – will reopen its doors to the publi

Forty-four objects of late antique Byzantine everyday culture were recently identified in Leipzig as belonging to the Berlin Museum of Byzantine Art and are now returning to the Bode Museum. The pieces had been transported to the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War and were mistakenly

From 1 April 2008, Dr Martina Rebmann will take over the management of the music department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, one of the most important collections of its kind in the world. This decision was taken by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage

The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag decided at its review meeting on 13 November 2014 to make 200 million euros available to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation over the coming years for the construction of a new Museum of Modern Art on Potsdamer Strasse. The Pietzsch, Marx and Marzon

Hermann Parzinger firmly rejects the criticism levelled in recent days at the plans to relocate the Gemäldegalerie and the Nationalgalerie, which have been described as a "castling". The following points explain the reasons for the plans to relocate the Gemäldegalerie and construct a new building, a