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The 2020 winter issue of the ZIG is dedicated to the "interlude of emancipation"; it also carries a report on initial discoveries in the Riefenstahl estate. The Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte [literally: magazine for the history of ideas] is published quarterly by C.H.Beck. The 2020 winter issue, w

Felix Ostrowski has been the head of the Presentation and Information Management section of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin since September. After graduating in technical communication and working at the University Library Center of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Institute of Library and Information

Dirk Ueckert, who holds a degree in economics, has headed the Department of Organization, Budget and Financial Services in the SPK's Central Administration since July. He previously worked at the Hamburg Senate in the field of property management for a few years before moving in 2004 to Berlin, wher

Dr. Julia Spohr joined the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek as its administrative director at the beginning of January. Before that, she worked at the Saxon Memorials Foundation, among other places. Now back in her home city of Berlin, she talked to us about the first few days in her new job. “As the di

In the 2020 Humboldt Ranking, published recently, the SPK has achieved second place in the humanities and social sciences The SPK enjoys a good reputation as a research institution among international visiting scholars. This is confirmed in the 2020 Humboldt Ranking, published by the Alexander von H

The interior of the Humboldt Forum is coming along nicely. A generous grant from the Kuratorium Preussischer Kulturbesitz has made it possible to commission Wang Shu – one of the most significant architects in China today – to design the space for exhibiting Chinese imperial court art from the colle

At a digital conference on October 27–28, 2020, the museum4punkt0 joint project is presenting new means of digital education and interpretation in museums and discussing current issues of digitality. The museum4punkt0 joint project develops, tests, evaluates, and publishes tools that fit into the mu

Some 1600 objects illustrate developments in the first millennium B.C. Almost half of them once belonged to the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, but owing to the war are now in Russian museums. The exhibition "Iron Age – Europe Without Borders" can be seen from November 11, 2020 to February 28, 2

A few weeks ago, the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin was given a valuable feather cap made by the milliner Anna Düll of Heidelberg. It is only a few months since Katrin Lindemann took up her new post as the curator of fashion and textiles at the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of De