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  1. Reopening of the State Library (08.12.2020)

    From 1 February 2021, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will welcome its users to the splendidly renovated building on Unter den Linden - opening ceremony on 25 January with a speech by Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble Completely renovated and modernised, equipped with a general and six reading ro

  2. Welfenschatz: On yesterday's hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court (08.12.2020)

    Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the legal dispute over the Guelph Treasure. The legal question at issue was whether US courts have jurisdiction over the case at all. A decision by the U.S. Supreme Court is expected in the course of next year. Hermann Parzinger: "We are pleased

  3. Special programme for building maintenance at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation - Parzinger thanks the Budget Committee and Minister of State for Culture Grütters (27.11.2020)

    At its adjustment meeting on 26 November 2020, the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approved a special programme for the preservation of the historical buildings of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. By 2025, a total of over 76 million euros will be available to preserve the Foundati

  4. Foundation Board sets course for management positions at the National Museums in Berlin (25.11.2020)

    Directorate of the Gemäldegalerie to be re-advertised - Management of the Nationalgalerie to be divided into three positions - Grütters and Parzinger thank Michael Eissenhauer On 23 November 2020, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Cu

  5. Construction work begins on the Nationalgalerie's Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum (18.11.2020)

    Work is currently starting on site for the Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum. The Haus der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin is being built according to plans by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Several measures are necessary to prepare the area for the construction work. The southbound l

  6. Iron Age - Europe without borders (10.11.2020)

    On 10 November 2020, the exhibition "Iron Age - Europe without Borders" opens at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Around 1600 objects from the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage and the three Russian partner museums will provi

  7. Rethinking Conceptualism: Avant-Garde, Activism and Politics in Latin American Art (1960s-1980s) (25.02.2021)

    Symposium on Latin American conceptual art from the 1960s to the 1980s: eight international online discussions from 10 March - supporting programme with exhibition and workshops at the Instituto Cervantes Berlin A symposium by independent curator Katerina Valdivia Bruch, in collaboration with the Ib

  8. Journal for the History of Ideas appears with the title "Colonial Goods" (19.02.2021)

    The spring issue of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte will be published on 22 February 2021 with the title "Kolonialwaren". The magazine is jointly edited by Ulrike Gleixner, Alexandra Kemmerer, Michael Matthiesen and SPK President Hermann Parzinger . The editors have this to say about the announc

  9. New website for the State Institute for Music Research: fresher, more user-friendly, more up-to-date (10.02.2021)

    New layout, new structure, new content - the website of the State Institute for Music Research www.simpk.de has been completely relaunched. The new website of the State Institute for Music Research has been online for a few days now. With its completely revised structure and new design, it is much c

  10. SPK and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin cooperate with Saxony-Anhalt: furniture designer Erich Dieckmann to be honoured with exhibition in Halle and Berlin in 2022 (12.05.2021)

    Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin as well as Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle to launch the rediscovery of the Bauhäusler in spring 2022 - Saxony-Anhalt's Minister of Culture Robra hands over funding decisio