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What is the state of relations between EU and CELAC as regional blocs on either side of the Atlantic? This question is being explored by a team of experts in an EU project called EULAC Focus. Among those taking part is the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. March 2016 marked the launch of an internation

What is the state of relations between EU and CELAC as regional blocs on either side of the Atlantic? This question is being explored by a team of experts in an EU project called EULAC Focus. Among those taking part is the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. March 2016 marked the launch of an internation

Following the completion of provenance research on skulls from German East Africa, an extensive report on the pilot project has now been published. “We are prepared to restitute these remains immediately, and we are waiting for signals from the countries of origin,” says SPK President Hermann Parzin

The new issue of the SPK Magazine with reports from Syria and Iraq: Illegal excavation and trade are endangering the world’s cultural heritage. This issue examines the workings of the trade in stolen antiquities and asks what is expected of museums now. Links for Additional Information Issue 01/2015

Over the next few years, a new museum building for twentieth-century art will rise at the Kulturforum. The new website will follow the design and construction process up until the opening. The new website for the new museum building at the Kulturforum went online in August 2016. It furnishes informa

Although the Humboldt Forum had only a digital opening yesterday evening in view of the coronavirus pandemic, work is nevertheless proceeding at full steam in the museums. Toralf Gabsch, chief restorer at the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Asian Art Museum) and responsible for the move of the Ethnolog

SPK Foundation Board appoints Dagmar Hirschfelder as the successor of Michael Eissenhauer as director of the Gemäldegalerie SPK Foundation Board decided on June 29, 2021: Dr. Dagmar Hirschfelder, who currently heads the paintings and graphics department of the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg, wi

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

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The Prussian Secret State Archives has acquired part of the estate of Prince Friedrich Leopold junior of Prussia (1895-1965), including nearly five hundred letters. They are the personal correspondence of the Prince Carl – or “Glienicke” – branch of the Prussian royal family, which was established b