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  1. 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

  2. SPK reform commission: more individual responsibility for the institutions (11.03.2021)

    At its meeting yesterday, the reform commission of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) dealt in detail with the situations at three of its institutions. The commission's deliberations on the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB – Berlin State Library), the Ibero

  3. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition decided - Prize goes to cello-piano duo from the Hanover University of Music and Performing Arts (17.01.2010)

    Tonight, the prize-winning duo Christine Rauh (cello) and Johannes Nies (piano) from the Hanover University of Music and Theatre, who won this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition, will present themselves to the audience in the concert hall of the Berlin University of the Arts. Germany's o

  4. Dahlem

    Dahlem When Germany was still divided, many of the museums in West Berlin were located in Dahlem. After reunification, a large number of collections were transferred to Mitte. In 2021 approximately 24,000 objects from the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst moved to the Humbold

  5. Köpenick

    Köpenick In the Treptow-Köpenick District of Berlin, there is an annex of the Kunstgewerbemuseum. The central storage location for the Foundation’s institutions is being built there as well. Schloss Köpenick: The Annex of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Köpenick (Köpenick Palace) was used from 1963 o

  6. Lost Work by Eduard Gaertner Returns to Kupferstichkabinett (24.03.2022)

    Work by Eduard Gaertner back in the Kupferstichkabinett: Believed lost in wartime, but recognized at auction; donated to the museum by its prospective seller. Eduard Gaertner’s Der Leipziger Platz in Berlin (1862) has recently been returned to the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings).

  7. Restitution of Fritz Huf’s Sculpture by the SPK (28.03.2022)

    The sculpture "Ruhende Frau", by Fritz Huf, was restored to the heir of Hans (Jean) Fürstenberg and then purchased by the SPSG for the park at Schloss Schönhausen. On April 5, 2022, the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz (National Museums in Berlin) will t

  8. Berlin State Library

    Berlin State Library Glimpses of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Multiteaser headline General reading room of the Staatsbibliothek building on Unter den Linden © SPK / Pierre Adenis Illustration from the Papilio Rumanzovia by Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz © SPK / Pierre Adenis General reading room of

  9. Schönberg for Eight Hands in 20 Minutes (28.04.2020)

    The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung is the secret star of the new Netflix series "Unorthodox" – so before your next binge-watching session, why not check out what the institute itself has to offer online? By Julia Spinola If you’re planning on binge-watching Netflix to forget the pandemic aft

  10. Postscript to the International Conference on Syria: Why Ruins Can Help People (30.06.2016)

    Palmyra has been freed, but the civil war continues – and with it the threat to Syria's cultural heritage. To discuss its protection, UNESCO convened a conference of experts in Berlin early in June 2016. For Zoya Masoud, this was the perfect place to talk about humanitarian aid. June 8, 2016 Zoya Ma