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Minister of State for Culture Weimer, Saxony's Prime Minister Kretschmer and Senator for Culture Wedl-Wilson honour formative years - speeches by Markschies and Chipperfield The former President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, was bid farewell on Tuesday (27 May) wit

José Arturo Castellanos and one of the greatest rescue missions of the Second World War were commemorated in a live film-concert at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. The Salvadoran general and diplomat José Arturo Castellanos (1893–1977) saved the lives of thousands of people during the Shoah. As C

The International Day of Provenance Research is taking place for the seventh time this year. On this day, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will once again provide insights into the diverse work of provenance researchers. In addition to the traditional guided provenance walks in cooperation with other

Following an initial restitution in 2012, works from the collection of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (1879 - 1943) were recently identified again at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Prof Glaser, museum director and art collector, lost his position in 1933 due to his Jewish descent and emigrated. The

Basic refurbishment of the historic building complex in keeping with its listed status is complete Berlin. The keys to the Berlin State Library in the Unter den Linden building were handed over today at a ceremony attended by 300 invited guests. This marks the completion of the basic refurbishment a

25.10.2024 The Magic of Tolerance Article If the Museum of European Cultures didn’t already exist, it would certainly be worth inventing Let’s start with the colours. Around the university buildings in Berlin-Dahlem, it always looks as though it might rain. Not a shower or driving rain, but rather a

The twenty-two centimetre high group of figures "Hercules and Omphale", carved out of ivory by the Baroque sculptor Balthasar Permoser around 1700, returned to its original place in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts after decades of loss. The work had initially come to the Berlin Kunstkammer in 1

More than half of the world's population already lives in cities. The trend towards megacities is continuing. At the event "Metropolises and megacities - past and present" on 12 September 2012, experts will shed light on the phenomenon of urbanisation from a historical and current perspective and di

Architecture summit on the "Blue Sofa": Sir David Chipperfield, Jacques Herzog, Regine Leibinger, HG Merz and Franco Stella in conversation with Vivian Perkovic - On 19 November 2019 from 7 pm in the new James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin's Museum Island - TV broadcast on 19 November 2019 from 11:10 pm o

The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) today unanimously elected Prof Dr Marion Ackermann as President of the Foundation. She will head the foundation from 1 June 2025 and succeed Prof. Dr Hermann Parzinger, who has held the position since March 2008 and will retire