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  1. Nazi-looted art: work by Camille Pissarro restituted and purchased for the Alte Nationalgalerie (18.10.2021)

    SPK returns "Une Place à la Roche-Guyon" by Camille Pissarro to the Dorville heirs and purchases it for the Alte Nationalgalerie The representatives of the Armand Dorville heirs visited the Alte Nationalgalerie today to sign the restitution and purchase agreement for the work. The work was acquired

  2. Restitution marks the start of cooperation between the Luther Memorials Foundation and the Berlin State Library of the SPK (17.01.2022)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned a friendship album from the Reformation period with an entry by Philipp Melanchthon to the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt. In the Luther House in Wittenberg, where it was stolen in 1976, it will once again be part of the perma

  3. The winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2022 in the subjects of piano and composition (17.01.2022)

    The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2022 ended yesterday evening with a spectacular finale. This year, the competition was held in the subjects of piano and composition. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin performed under the direction of Leslie Suganandarajah. This year's prizewinner

  4. The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in piano and composition starts on 12 January 2022 (11.01.2022)

    On 12 January 2022, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will begin, in which the best young musicians from German music academies will compete against each other in the subjects of piano and composition. The final concert and the prizewinners' concert with competition participants

  5. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2022 in the subjects of piano and composition from 12 to 16 January 2022 (20.12.2021)

    At the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2022, the best students in the subjects of piano and composition will compete for the prizes of Germany's oldest competition for young talent in classical music. The musicians will present their skills to the top-class jury in Berlin from 12

  6. Institute for Museum Research reports visit figures for museums in Germany in the first coronavirus year 2020 (17.12.2021)

    Corona-related changes: Visitor numbers slumped as expected - creative potential unleashed, also in the digital world 33.6 million visits to German museums: 70% fewer than in the previous year The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 33,550,296 visits in 2020. This is a good two-t

  7. Korean Cultural Centre in Germany supports Museum of Asian Art - Agreement signed to fund a curator position (15.12.2021)

    The Korean Cultural Centre in Germany under the direction of Mr Bongki Lee and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation have signed an agreement to intensify research with and on the Korean collection of the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin. The research activities supported in

  8. Pop-up vaccination centre in the Potsdamer Platz State Library (08.02.2022)

    Vaccination will take place from 16 to 19 February 2022 at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin at Potsdamer Platz, Potsdamer Straße 33. Registration via Doctolib: https://www.doctolib.de/institut/berlin/aino Vaccination protects - even culture. That's why the SPK, together with Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH,

  9. SPK returns human remains to Hawai'i (07.02.2022)

    On 11 February 2022, the SPK will hand over the human remains of 32 individuals to representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). These have been in the care of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin since 2011. At the end of 2021, the SPK Board of Trustees

  10. SPK adopts Open Science Declaration (07.02.2022)

    Open access to scientific knowledge as a central field of action for the SPK - new Open Science Declaration adopted Open science is not only a key issue in science and research, but also in the cultural sector and in society in general. In addition to Open Access, this also requires Open Data and Op