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  1. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Sebastian Schmideler heads the children's and young adult book department (16.08.2024)

    Dr Sebastian Schmideler, currently a research assistant for children's and young adult literature and literary didactics at the University of Leipzig, will become the new head of the children's and young adult book department at the Berlin State Library on 2 September 2024. He succeeds Carola Pohlma

  2. SPK restitutes 73 documents from the Warsaw Main Archives Alter Akten to Poland (01.12.2025)

    In the course of the German-Polish intergovernmental consultations, 73 documents from the time of the Teutonic Order from the holdings of the Prussian Secret State Archives were returned to Poland today, Monday, at the Federal Chancellery. These are archival documents that were removed from the Wars

  3. Berlin State Library returns historical prints (13.01.2010)

    On Monday (11 January 2010), the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returned two books formerly owned by the Counts of Lynar to their heirs. The two volumes from the 17th century had come to the attention of the Berlin State Library during the processing of its holdings. Their provenance could be

  4. Statement on the criticism of the Gemäldegalerie's relocation plans (04.07.2012)

    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

  5. Handing over the keys to the State Library's General Reading Room (10.12.2012)

    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

  6. Ideas Competition Museum of the 20th Century - Ideas Competition Museum of the 20th Century (12.02.2016)

    The ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum came to an end this Friday with the selection of ten winning designs. The teams of architects and landscape architects responsible for the award-winning designs have thus qualified to take part in the realisation compet

  7. On the current debate about the Museum of the 20th Century at the National Gallery at the Kulturforum (30.10.2019)

    In its issue of 30 October 2019, the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" reported on the Nationalgalerie's planned 20th century museum at Berlin's Kulturforum. The article "Very, very much space" by Jörg Häntzschel distorts key aspects of the new building. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation corrects some p

  8. Outstanding late Gothic Madonna figure acquired for Berlin sculpture collection (25.05.2009)

    With the support of the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz recently acquired a "Mother of God Enthroned" for the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. We invite you to the ceremonial handover in the Basilica of

  9. Visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in Germany stabilised at a high level in 2018 (20.12.2019)

    With around 111.6 million visits, the museums maintained the high level of 2016. The museums that took part in the survey reported around 8,800 special exhibitions, which is almost the same number as the previous year. The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 111,662,229 visits in

  10. Kogi masks are restituted (16.06.2023)

    SPK restitutes Kogi masks to Colombia - Handover during a visit by Colombian President Gustavo Petro to Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Schloss Bellevue on 16 June 2023 - Roth: "Restitution helps the traditions and customs of the Kogi to be respected" The Ethnological Museum of the Nati