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The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, unanimously decided on Tuesday that Dr Alexis von Poser should take over the position of Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art. The Ethnologi

The German Digital Library has today launched the online portal "Collections from colonial contexts" under the domain ccc.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de. This means that collection items from colonial contexts from 25 pilot institutions are now available online within the German Digital Library. In

museum4punkt0, the Germany-wide network for digital education led by the SPK, is continuing its projects in 2022. Since 2017, teams from a wide range of institutions have been developing and testing closely networked digital education programmes. A hybrid conference with a showcase on 1 and 2 Novemb

Welcome! Museum Club for children and young people from Ukraine at Haus Bastian, the centre for cultural education on Museum Island, can continue its successful work. Free project days and holiday programmes have also been added to the programme. Since 2022, the SPK has established a new format for

Despite the ongoing Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the country's museums are looking to the future and are now presenting joint proposals for a comprehensive reconstruction of the country. At the Berlin conference "From Crisis to Future: New Responsibilities for Museums in Ukraine", repr

Hermann Parzinger firmly rejects the criticism levelled in recent days at the plans to relocate the Gemäldegalerie and the Nationalgalerie, which have been described as a "castling". The following points explain the reasons for the plans to relocate the Gemäldegalerie and construct a new building, a

Unter den Linden created the best structural conditions for users, valuable collections and librarians. Today, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, and the Director General of the Berlin State Library, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, receive the keys to the new Gen

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has acquired Alexander von Humboldt's American Travel Diaries. Written partly in German and partly in French during his great voyage of discovery through Central and South America between 1799 and 1804, these unique and internationally highly significant his

Museums in Germany reported a total of 110,425,002 visits in 2013. This is the second-highest number of visits since the first complete survey began in 1981. Only in the previous year 2012 was the figure slightly higher (2.1 per cent). The 8,942 special exhibitions organised by German museums contri

The visitor figures for museums are published in the overall statistical survey of museums and exhibition centres in the Federal Republic of Germany. This has been published annually since 1981 by the Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin Prussian Cultural Heritage in co-op