in Prussia at the time. “Educate – connect – inspire” is the motto for UNESCO World Heritage Day on 1 June, marking the start of five years of celebrations for Museum Island – a festival for Berliners and
heart of the island Interview with Anette Hüsch, Director of the Alte Nationalgalerie Article Since 1 March 2025, Anette Hüsch has been director of the Alte Nationalgalerie – with respect for history and
the equestrian nomads – specifically the emergence of equestrian nomadism and the Scythians in the 1st millennium BC. One of the most significant discoveries in this context concerns the supply of raw
we are currently in the process of successfully completing a project to digitise and index around 1,100 hospital account books dating back to the mid-14th century, which have been preserved almost in
calendars and identity documents, which are now accessible to anyone interested via a new database. The 1,800 files are being made available gradually. The site will remain open until 30 June and can be added
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
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