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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

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

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

Professor Axel Marx and family donate important Beuys works from the Erich Marx Collection to the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz The family of art collector Erich Marx, who died in 2020, has donated all of the works by artist Joseph Beuys in the Marx collection to the Stiftung Preussischer Kultu

New perspectives on knowledge circulation and library infrastructure were discussed at international workshops held by Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America) at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. From September 12 to 16, 2022, two separate but related workshops

New perspectives on knowledge circulation and library infrastructure were discussed at international workshops held by Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America) at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. From September 12 to 16, 2022, two separate but related workshops

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

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

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

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