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The Berlin Egyptologist and Orientalist Prof Dr Verena Lepper has received one of the most important awards in the world of research, the ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). She now has access to funding for her research project "Localising 4000 Years of Cultural History. Te

In order to be able to offer visitors to Berlin's Museum Island an attractive programme during the renovation of the Pergamon Museum, the SPK is erecting a temporary exhibition building. It will be built directly opposite the Museum Island on Kupfergraben and next to the railway line. Visitors will

At the end of last week, the Bundestag's Budget Committee approved funding for the "Museum 4.0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future" project. The project, which is being led by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, also involves the Deutsche Aus-wandererhaus Bremerhaven, the Deutsc

"Shared Knowledge" project analyses around 3,000 objects with guests from Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela - results on display in the new Berlin Palace Guests from Amazonia are currently researching 150 artefacts from the Rio Negro region in the Dahlem depots of the Ethnological Museum of the Nationa

With the Museum of the 20th Century, a building is being erected at the Kulturforum that will develop great charisma and at the same time fulfil the complex museum tasks to a high degree. The architecture that will be created in the coming years will be even more open to its surroundings and will fo

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted five works from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin to the heirs of the art dealer Heinrich Ueberall. The works had come to the museums in the course of a purchase by the Dresdner Bank in 1935. Heinrich Ueberall died in Sachsenha

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

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