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Organisations from across Germany will be showcasing their work on UNESCO World Heritage Day on Berlin’s Museum Island – a performance by Gabriele Stötzer – young people debating conscription and cultural subsidies – an interactive exhibition on the history of democracy – Julia Ruhs, Paul Nolte and

The German Digital Library has a new leadership team: Gero Dimter, Vice-President of the SPK, has been elected spokesperson for the Executive Board. Prof. Dr Patricia Rahemipour (Director of the Institute for Museum Research, SPK) has been appointed as one of the deputy spokespersons. This decision

SPK programme initiative to mark the 250th anniversary of US Independence, featuring exhibition installations, special presentations, talks, discussions, conferences and workshops 4 July 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. In this document, in 1776, the thirteen B

As part of the German-Polish Forum, various cultural artefacts have today been returned to the Republic of Poland; these had been confiscated or removed during the German occupation of Poland in the Second World War. The SPK is returning a medieval manuscript containing part of the text of the Polis

At the LASA Congress in Paris, international experts discussed connected information infrastructures for Latin America and the Caribbean. The IAI was represented by Christoph Müller, who also helped organize the panel as Vice President of REDIAL. The Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) participated

Valuable faience stele resurfaced in Michigan after seventy years during research work / Parzinger thanks American museum for great gesture A valuable Egyptian object that recently returned to Berlin can be seen again in the Neues Museum on Museum Island from mid-June. The upper part of a faience st

- The spoken word prevails - Honourable Federal Chancellor, Mr Governing Mayor, Mr Minister of State, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, esteemed guests, Today is a historic day for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, for Berlin and for the entire country. The occasion is no small one, for t

The mobility partnership between SPK and Flix is extended: ten specially branded Flix buses advertise the 200th anniversary of the Museum Island Berlin - special giveaways for customers At the start of the celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of Museum Island Berlin, the mobility provider Flix

Potential analysis of the Dahlem museum site presented: Campus axis, bundling of research resources, specialised library The museum complex in Berlin-Dahlem is to be expanded into a research campus in the coming years. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the National Museums in Berlin have

Prof. Dr Stephan Waetzoldt died on 25 May 2008 at the age of 88. He was General Director of the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz from 1965 to 1983. With foresight and skill, he turned the museums in West Berlin, scarred by the division of the city and its collections, back into a cornersto