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  1. New in the Musikinstrumenten-Museum: Instrument expert Christian Breternitz (07.07.2020)

    Organs, wind instruments and iPads: Christian Breternitz's apprenticeship and years of travel in the fascinating and diverse world of musical instruments. The instrument expert is the new research associate at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung. By Julia Spin

  2. Digital network meeting with museum professionals from fifteen institutions (01.07.2020)

    The burning questions of 2020 virtually under discussion: pandemic experience, communication formats, and digitization strategies In the course of the project, the regular group meetings of museum4punkt0 have proven to be an important format for exchanging thoughts in person among the partner instit

  3. Repatriation of human remains to Australia (11.09.2020)

    SPK will return human bones in a bark coffin and two mummified children’s bodies currently kept in the Ethnologisches Museum to Australia. Since 2011, Australia has followed a policy that supports Indigenous Australians in recovering and returning their ancestral remains from abroad. In February 202

  4. Coming soon: Beethoven's 10th Symphony? (03.07.2020)

    Artificial intelligence is being used to complete the fragment – the head of the music department of the Staatsbibliothek is skeptical Now you can see it again, but only until July 24: This kiss to the whole world! is an exhibition about the Beethoven collection of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Be

  5. Human Remains from the Ethnological Museum will be returned to New Zealand (02.09.2020)

    SPK will return two mummified heads (Toi moko) of tattooed Māori men from the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum to New Zealand. In 2003, the government of New Zealand mandated that the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa repatriate Māori human remains to New Zealand. Hermann Parzinger, Pr

  6. Managing Non-European Objects

    Managing Non-European Objects To ensure that non-European objects and their history are managed properly, the SPK has developed a general policy in the course of the preparations for the Humboldt Forum. The inclusion of the societies of origin is a central part of it. Presentation of the cooperation

  7. Digital Manifesto

    Digital Manifesto The transformation of society by digital technologies, media and practices is accompanied by changing expectations towards cultural and scientific institutions such as the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation). The SPK is already pursuing a new

  8. Parzinger: a first step and a great opportunity (13.07.2020)

    The SPK president comments on the recommendations of the Scientific Board presented today. The goal is to "strengthen the potential for development and not to damage ... the special aura, but to enhance [it]." On July 13, 2020, the German Council of Science and Humanities presented the results of it

  9. Museums show solidarity with clubs (03.07.2020)

    SPOT // berlin art sessions is a new series of events starting in mid-July, in which DJ sessions are held exclusively at the museums and filmed. The video files are available for download worldwide. The SPK and its Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) bring you SPOT, organized jo

  10. SPK on board: NFDI4Culture approved (30.06.2020)

    NFDI4Culture consortium sets up national research data infrastructure for tangible and intangible cultural assets with the participation of the SPK. As one of the sponsoring institutions, the SPK is actively involved in the NFDI4Culture consortium, which the Joint Science Conference (GWK) of the fed