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  1. Natural stone, clay plaster walls, and a gigantic wooden roof structure (26.10.2020)

    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

  2. Young Musicians' Prize - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition 2008 has been decided (12.01.2008)

    The decision for the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize 2008 was made today. In a two-day competition, the best students from Germany's music academies once again competed for first place in two musical subjects, which change every year. In the piano quartet category, the Orion Quartet from the Folkw

  3. Bauhäusler and furniture designer Erich Dieckmann is honoured with major exhibition in Halle and Berlin (26.01.2022)

    Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin as well as Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle are cooperating in this rediscovery of a formative designer and following in his footsteps in the present day For the first time

  4. Return heralds collaboration between Luther Memorials and Staatsbibliothek (18.01.2022)

    The SPK has recently returned a friendship album to the Luther Memorials Foundation. It dates from the Reformation era and contains an entry by Philipp Melanchthon. It will become part of the permanent exhibition at the Lutherhaus in Wittenberg, from where it was stolen in 1976. Until it was stolen,

  5. First German Return of "Benin Bronzes" (01.07.2022)

    Commemorative head and relief plaque from the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin The collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin currently include more than 500 objects from the former Kingdom of Benin, which forms part of present-day Nigeria. In 1897,

  6. 200 years of German-speaking immigration to Brazil (28.01.2025)

    Brazil was the most important destination for German-speaking emigrants in Latin America. In the anniversary year 2024, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) looked back and ahead with the Brazilian Embassy and other partners. As a young man, Albert Richard Dietze (1838-1906) moved to Brazil from

  7. SPK returns antique vases to Italy and receives long-term loans (13.06.2024)

    Closing date: 13.06.2024, 2.30 pm SPK restitutes 25 objects from the Collection of Classical Antiquities with dubious provenance to Italy - Contract signed with Minister of State for Culture Roth and Italian Minister of Culture Sangiuliano in Berlin - Parzinger: Restitution agreement intensifies coo

  8. What has happened since the 2008 restitution request for the Guelph Treasure?

    What has happened since the 2008 restitution request for the Guelph Treasure? Article Restitution of the Guelph Treasure was first requested in 2008 by heirs to some of the Jewish art dealers in the consortium. The Beratende Kommission (Advisory Commission) concluded in 2014 that there was no basis

  9. New Publication: Results of the Provenance Research on Skulls from German East Africa (18.01.2023)

    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

  10. Allusions to Schinkel’s Works (24.10.2022)

    The new Bauakademie will be an example of sustainability in architecture The reconstructed version of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s former Bauakademie (Building Academy) in the historical center of Berlin will be “an outstanding example of architectural innovation and environmental, economic and social