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collection is a key focus of the 2026 programme year. In collaboration with Google Arts & Culture, over 1,100 works have been digitised in high resolution and made available online – a milestone in this lo
bound together, in some cases arbitrarily. Counting the individual texts brings the total to just over 1,000 items; if one counts only the individual codices, there are approximately 590 manuscripts in Hebrew [...] four-volume Bible to the Elector for his library. The first volume bears…
represent a representative selection of ancient Near Eastern cultures from the 4th century BC to the 1st century AD and demonstrate the connections between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley civilisation as [...] tablets from the 4th millennium BC, through schoolchildren’s tablets, to an…
the reform will be complete by the end of November. With the new Foundation Act coming into force on 1 December, we will have a new Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. This is an important milestone in
so-called ‘main sample’, in which a type foundry showcases its entire typeface portfolio, can easily run to 1,200 pages – and each page features a different typeface. That amounts to a huge number of typefaces
converted into a state-of-the-art library: featuring several reading rooms, exhibition and event spaces, a 1.7-kilometre-long book transport system invisible to users, a digitisation centre and vaults for valuable
And now, as we approach the SPK’s 25th anniversary, I wish to briefly highlight just three of them 1. Hard Core Science Our two disciplines, prehistory and early history, and heritage science, could not
addressing cases of Nazi-looted art. In total, the SPK returned Parzinger’s tenure, the SPK has returned 1,572 books and 223 works of art – one of which was August Gaul’s “Reclining Lion”, confiscated in 2015 [...] Ackermann, Director General of the Dresden State Art Collections, will…
witness to his systematic and analytical thinking. In 2006, for instance, he published the monumental 1,045-page work *The Early Peoples of Eurasia: From the Neolithic to the Middle Ages *. He regularly wrote