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For one weekend, Mies van der Rohe's building will focus on the materiality of modernism under the motto "On the substance" Exactly one hundred years ago, the Staatliches Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau. In Anhalt, the "Silicon Valley of the 1920s", the school entered its most dynamic and fruitf

The SPK has restituted the painting "Eleonore von Wilke" by Lovis Corinth from the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie to the heirs of Ismar and Käthe Littmann. They subsequently donated it to the museum, where it will continue to be on display following the Corinth exhibition. Ismar Littmann (18

FREE TO ENTER At the 2026 Island Festival, Sunday (7 June) will be dedicated to democracy. This is in keeping with this year’s theme for UNESCO World Heritage Day: ‘Together for Peace and Understanding’. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has therefore invited partner institutions from across

On September 23, the Belgian House of Representatives returned a painting by Friedrich Nerly to the SPK. It belonged to the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Old National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums) and had previously been considered a war loss. The

The new information centre on Schlossplatz presents the concepts of the National Museums in Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin Central and State Library for the Humboldt Forum. The Humboldt Box is a temporary landmark: with changing exhibitions and events, it accompanies the conce

Museums in Germany reported a total of 112,807,633 museum visits in 2012. This represents an increase of 2.9 per cent compared to 2011 and is the highest number of visits since the survey of visit figures began in 1981. These figures have now been published in the overall statistical survey of museu

On 18 January 2017, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will begin in this year's violin and piano trio categories. The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition lasts three days, with 35 violin students and 17 piano trios competing this year. The competitions start at 10

Strengthening Berlin as an international science metropolis is the goal of a joint initiative of the capital's non-university research institutions. They have joined forces to form BR 50 (Berlin Research 50) in order to develop joint strategies for research and dialogue with politics and society. Th

A few days ago, the SPK handed over four iwi kūpuna (human remains of Hawaiian descent) and seven moepū (grave goods) to Hui Iwi Kuamo'o, an organisation of Hawaiian First Nations representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). The human remains had been in the care of the Museum of Prehistory an

The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2025 will take place from 15 to 19 January. This year, Germany's oldest competition for young talent in classical music will be held in the violin and piano trio categories. Ulf Werner, orchestra director of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, will