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German/American Provenance Research Exchange Programme (PREP) has come to an end: Transatlantic network has been established The German-American Exchange on Provenance Research in Museums, PREP for short, has come to an end in Washington. Museum experts from 25 German and American institutions speci

Based on the recommendations of the SPK Reform Commission, the SPK Foundation Board today adopted the key points of the structural reform. The autonomy of the museums, libraries, archives and research institutions belonging to the SPK is to be significantly strengthened. At the same time, they are t

The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2021 ended yesterday evening with a spectacular finale. This year, the competition was held in the violin and piano trio categories. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin performed under the direction of Felix Bender. This year's prize winners are VIO

The series supported by the Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz comes to an end this Thursday with a final event - the opening of the building at the Kulturforum remains a central theme After four years, the "Design Lab" discussion and lecture series at the Kunstgewerbemuseum ends this Thursday with

What will become of Dahlem? From the idea of a "German Oxford" to a modern location for culture, research and teaching, the district in the south-west of Berlin has reinvented itself time and again as a museum location. 2024 is the year of Dahlem: the Geheime Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz ha

At the end of 2025, the Director of the Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Prof Dr Andreas Scholl, will retire after more than twenty years in office. He will be succeeded by his current deputy, Dr Martin Maischberger. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foun

Great interest in researching card catalogues at State Library symposium - catalogues will be preserved for the time being The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin recently hosted an academic discussion entitled "Card catalogues. Untouchable cultural asset, active object of research or substitutable historica

The Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) has taken over the chairmanship and office of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutsche Lateinamerikaforschung ADLAF (German Latin American Studies Association) for two years. The new chair of the ADLAF is the director of the IAI, Barbara Göbel. The ADLAF brings togeth

Peter Birle on the ntv podcast about relations between the USA and Latin America and the implications for Europe. In a double episode, the ntv podcast “Wirtschaft Welt & Weit (external link, opens in a new window)” looks at relations between the USA and Latin America since Donald Trump’s presidency.

Today, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are visiting the Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island, which, following its structural completion, is now being furnished and prepared for its opening on 16 October 2009. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundatio