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18.12.2017 Grave Goods From Alaska Article The SPK is returning nine objects from the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. We asked Monika Zessnik, the curator of the North America collection at the museum, how this came about. Ms. Zessnik, who

In memory of the recently deceased Peruvian author and Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa, a small showcase exhibition is currently presented in the reading room of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. Mario Vargas Llosa (1936 – 2025) visited the IAI in person several times. Among other ocasions, i

José Arturo Castellanos and one of the greatest rescue missions of the Second World War were commemorated in a live film-concert at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. The Salvadoran general and diplomat José Arturo Castellanos (1893–1977) saved the lives of thousands of people during the Shoah. As C

06.09.2017 PREP: Building a Research Autobahn Article In September, 21 German and American museum professionals will meet in Berlin to learn about issues of provenance research in both countries. Jane Milosch, Director of the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative, explains how the German/Americ

In 2025 and 2026, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) (German Academic Exchange Service) is funding the project “Open Science in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Argentina and Germany: Opportunities, Challenges, and Contestations” applied for by the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (

The SPK is a member of “Berlin Research 50” (BR50), a group of non-academic research institutions founded in 2020. The BR50 interest group Internationales recently met at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. On June 15, a meeting of the BR50 interest group Internationales (International Affairs) took

The SPK is a member of “Berlin Research 50” (BR50), a group of non-academic research institutions founded in 2020. The BR50 interest group Internationales recently met at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. On June 15, a meeting of the BR50 interest group Internationales (International Affairs) took

21.11.2018 Michaela Scheibe: The Detective Article Michaela Scheibe in search of lost books and their unknown owners Imagine wanting to make a mystery movie. The setting is the endless stacks of a famous library. The detective is a woman, of course; a shrewd lady who searches not only for lost books

What is the Guelph Treasure? Article The Guelph Treasure is a former medieval church treasure named after the House of Guelph, which owned it since 1671. Forty-four of the former 82 objects are now owned by the SPK. What is now known as the Guelph Treasure was the reliquary treasure of the former co

21.11.2018 Right to be Returned? Article An estimated 600,000 works of art were plundered by the Nazis. A summary of restitutions to date Twenty years have passed since the Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets. This is an anniversary to celebrate even if the fact itself is no reason for joy