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On Wednesday, representatives of the 91 institutions currently participating in the World Digital Library (WDL) elected their Executive Council in Washington. Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, is one of the seven members who will in future define the guidel

The Coordination Centre for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage will deal with issues relating to the preservation of written collections in archives and libraries at a national level. It was set up by the federal and state governments on the initiative of the Minister of State for Culture

Scientists discussed "The future of the humanities in a multipolar world" on the Museum Island. How is the future of the humanities shaping up in our multipolar world? What role do the humanities play in a 21st century society characterised by cultural and social change and how do they see their new

A precious ivory jug from the early 18th century has been returned to the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. The object had not returned from its storage location in Berlin after the Second World War and was long considered lost. The Prague Museum of Decorative Arts, which had acqui

Dr des. Andrea Schlosser was awarded this year's Ernst Waldschmidt Prize for her dissertation "On the Bodhisattva Path in Gandhāra. Edition of Fragment 4 and 11 from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts". The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation a

The DSO's Adamello Quartet plays works by Dutilleux and Mozart The last 'Notturno' chamber concert of this season will take place on 3 June in the Rotunda of the Altes Museum on Museum Island. The Adamello Quartet of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will perform Henri Dutilleux's string quar

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recovered a valuable Etruscan bronze statuette that was thought to have been lost since the Second World War. The depiction of a spear-throwing man with a helmet, which had been part of the antiquities collection since 1869, was recently identified in th

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

Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin heads the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) with

On 25 January 2021, the main building of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden will reopen digitally - after extensive refurbishment, modernisation and expansion. The structural and organisational measures have been completed and the Staatsbibliothek is ready to open the building. In his speech, Bun