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To mark his 70th birthday, Friedrich Christian Flick has donated 104 works of contemporary art to the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. This is the second donation in just a few years. Flick had already donated 166 works to the museum in 2008. In addition to the d

Today the keys were handed over for the first building at the SPK's new storage location, the Friedrichshagen storage magazine. In attendance were Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Günter Winands, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner fo

The recently published, comprehensive 48th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook looks back on 2012, the year in which both the new General Reading Room of the State Library in the Unter den Linden building and the Archaeological Centre were completed. Also documented are the openings of

In the 51st volume of the yearbook, you can find out, among other things, how museums are challenged by the current debate about immigration and isolation - but also that a red ICE would sound louder than a green one, that we look at our mobile phones an average of 88 times a day, that Goethe alread

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will return nine objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. The Board of Trustees today approved a corresponding proposal by the President. The artefacts are grave goods from Na

The SPK's museums, libraries and archives have been closed to the public for more than a month. The first steps towards reopening will be taken from 4 May 2020: In the State Library, the Ibero-American Institute and the State Institute for Music Research, media can once again be collected and return

For the first time, Russian and German researchers have jointly analysed the wartime losses of Russian museums during the Second World War. The results are summarised in the recently published book "Raub und Rettung. Russian Museums in the Second World War", which uses detailed case studies to shed

For the first time in over thirty years, a major exhibition will be dedicated to the furniture designer, Bauhaus member and Burg teacher Erich Dieckmann (1896-1944), which will be on show in Halle (Saale) and Berlin in 2022. Dieckmann, who became known for his type furniture programmes, worked in We

The SPK's libraries, archives and museums have been gradually resuming operations since the beginning of May. The pandemic ordinance of the state of Berlin now also makes it possible to open reading rooms to a limited extent. Media from the SPK libraries have been available to borrow again since May

The Ethnological Museum with its two locations in the Humboldt Forum and in Dahlem will have a new director from mid-January The current Director of the Ethnological Collection of the Museum Natur und Mensch in Freiburg, Tina Brüderlin, will in future head the Ethnological Museum of the National Mus