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To mark Germany’s participation as guest of honor at the 23rd International Book Fair in Guatemala, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) is presenting an exhibition that explores the fair’s theme: “Stories that build bridges”: The Becker Meyer family’s correspondence between Guatemala and Germany

Around twenty posters advertising sporting events in Mexico offer a glimpse into the colorful visual world of the 1940s and 1950s. The collection forms part of the IAI’s Special Collections. With the 2026 men’s Football World Cup, which will be hosted jointly by Mexico, the United States, and Canada

"Dagar Diaries", key sources on the Kingdom of Westphalia, previously secret records of a North Indian musical tradition, photographs from Sarajevo and 200,000 theatre programmes – four restoration projects at SPK institutions are part of the KEK funding programme ‘Preserving Written Cultural Herita

2025 was a year that saw a number of changes for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: a new Executive Board was appointed, the new Foundation Act came into force, and Marion Ackermann took up her post as the new President. The SPK’s annual report, which has just been published, focuses on thes

Does the true cradle of the liberal world order lie in Latin America? And why is that order more threatened today than ever? An interview with Pulitzer Prize winner and Yale historian Greg Grandin, who was a guest at the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) in Berlin. The rules-based order, international

SPK President Marion Ackermann, together with museum directors and curators, presented a selection of special exhibition highlights from next year’s programme. From Thomas Gainsborough on the 300th anniversary of his birth, Ai Weiwei at the Bode Museum, Arnold Böcklin beyond the myth, international

At the 114th BiblioCon, representatives of international library associations discussed strategies for ensuring free access to knowledge and the role of libraries in different political and social systems. The Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) participated in BiblioCon 2026 with an internationally

For the third time, the Weimar Classical Foundation is presenting the ‘Weimar Room’ in Berlin. From now on, visitors to the James Simon Gallery can catch a glimpse of the upcoming themed year, ‘Feminine Weimar’. This is the third time that the Weimar Classical Foundation has brought its mobile exhib

July 4, 2026, marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence Day. On this occasion, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) has launched a Program Initiative in which the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) is participating with a Lecture Series. The IAI

This year’s Long Night of Museums is themed ‘Crime in Berlin’. The SPK is taking part with thirteen venues. On Saturday 29 August 2026, Berlin’s museums will take on a criminal theme: under the banner ‘Crime in Berlin’, the Long Night of Museums, running from 6 pm to 2 am, invites visitors to discov