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  1. Basic refurbishment of the "book ship" at the Kulturforum (12.02.2026)

    Scharoun's listed architectural icon urgently needs to be renovated - the building will be closed to users from 2030. The urgently needed refurbishment of the "Bücherschiff" at the Kulturforum can begin. The building will close from 2030. Prior to this, 5.4 million books must be relocated and prepar

  2. Card catalogues of the State Library will continue to be preserved for the time being (16.02.2026)

    Great interest in researching card catalogues at State Library symposium - catalogues will be preserved for the time being The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin recently hosted an academic discussion entitled "Card catalogues. Untouchable cultural asset, active object of research or substitutable historica

  3. Ludwig Unter den Linden, Karl Friedrich in the church and Claudia at the Kulturforum - the highlights of 2020 were presented at the SPK's annual reception (05.02.2020)

    This year, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is preparing for the reopening of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden and the handover of the keys to the Neue Nationalgalerie. As SPK President Hermann Parzinger said at the traditional annual reception in the James-Simon-Galerie, the Staatsbib

  4. Restitution of books from the State Library to Le Figaro (10.03.2022)

    SPK returns books confiscated during the Second World War to the French daily newspaper Le Figaro - Ceremonial handover at the embassy Today at the French Embassy in Berlin, the Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Achim Bonte, returned 33 books to representatives of the French newspa

  5. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over manuscripts to the German Historical Museum (14.03.2018)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has handed over nine manuscripts to the German Historical Museum Foundation (DHM) that were in the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage. The military-historical works belonged to the armoury library until the armoury was dissolved and were trans

  6. Topping-out ceremony for the Lindenkuppel of the Berlin State Library (10.07.2013)

    Today, the construction companies working at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's Unter den Linden site, together with the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, the Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, and the President of the

  7. Provenance Research Day at the SPK: Virtual exhibition and online event with provenance researchers (13.04.2021)

    The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will once again be taking part in the third International Day of Provenance Research on 14 April - with a virtual exhibition, a digital discussion with provenance researchers and new content on the websites. The virtual exhibition "S

  8. "Art in architecture" for the Berlin State Library (17.12.2009)

    Olaf Metzel (Munich) and Tobias Rehberger (Frankfurt am Main) have won the art-in-architecture competition for the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's Unter den Linden building. From tomorrow, all submitted designs will be on display in the Potsdamer Straße building. On 20 November 2009, the winners of the

  9. Max Hollein talks about his father / Bauhaus music in the Neue Nationalgalerie / Memories of the old Tiergarten neighbourhood - "Utopia Kulturforum" with numerous accompanying events (22.10.2021)

    As part of the exhibition and event project "Utopia Kulturforum", the St Matthew's Foundation, the Art Library, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the New National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library, the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation and the Ibero-American Institute

  10. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation turns fifty (24.07.2007)

    25 July 2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the German Bundestag's resolution on the law establishing the Foundation. It contains regulations on the transfer of art and cultural assets (archive, library and museum holdings as well as scientific collections) and the associated properties, which we