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February 14 is not just Valentine’s Day, it is also Library Lovers’ Day. Book lovers the world over celebrate their libraries – and this year they even helped the library of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut to set a minor Twitter record Started by the Australian State Library of New South Wales in

February 14 is not just Valentine’s Day, it is also Library Lovers’ Day. Book lovers the world over celebrate their libraries – and this year they even helped the library of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut to set a minor Twitter record Started by the Australian State Library of New South Wales in

What has happened since the 2008 restitution request for the Guelph Treasure? Article Restitution of the Guelph Treasure was first requested in 2008 by heirs to some of the Jewish art dealers in the consortium. The Beratende Kommission (Advisory Commission) concluded in 2014 that there was no basis

As part of the Mecila community , the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut was once again the main organizer of this year's Mecila Annual Meeting and Young Researchers Forum, now with a focus on "Informalities, Conviviality and Inequality in Latin America". International and interdisciplinary exchange on i

Remembrance ceremony at the Neue Nationalgalerie for Heiner Pietzsch, an eminent patron of the arts On October 17, the Berlin cultural scene bid farewell to the great arts patron Heiner Pietzsch in a moving ceremony of remembrance at the Neue Nationalgalerie. The event was hosted by Ulla Pietzsch an

To mark the centenary of the Surrealist Manifesto, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut on the basis of rare library holdings shows how the subversive poetic and artistic movement spread in Latin America. André Breton's first Surrealist Manifesto was published in Paris on October 15, 1924. It was the b

13.06.2018 Much More Than a Partnership of Convenience Article Is there a common European identity? If so, what exactly does that mean when it comes to politics and culture? Hermann Parzinger, president of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK) and also t

Several German museums have returned a total of five works of art that originally belonged to the collection of Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann. On July 4, five works of art from several German museums were transferred to the heirs of Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann at the Städtische Galerie (Municipal Ga

The SPK Lab is looking for users of cultural heritage data who can help us draw up and implement new formats to encourage use of the digital material in our collections and holdings, whether by scholars, artists, or others working outside academia. Would you like to help us find the best ways of mak

From May 2023, the website of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) will have even more cultural treasures to discover. The DDB now has more than 45 million cultural objects on virtual display from the digital collections of approximately 780 cultural and knowledge institutions. The Deutsche Digita