in the converted Dresden log cabin on the banks of the Elbe. Over 1.5 million objects from Marzona’s donations to the Dresden State Art Collections are housed here. Letters, artworks, designs, publications
: 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 cultural heritage such as
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 be more different. Language and
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 as a result of Nazi persecution [...] Dresden State Art Collections, will succeed Hermann Parzinger on 1 June 2025.…
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 large sections of it whilst
Museum of Prehistory and Early History and project leader): Day 1: 30 November 2024 Departure from Lomé via the N1 northwards to the Tchaoudjo region Arrival in the village of Alibi I at approx. 5 pm [...] emotional, but friendly and warm Overnight stay in Sokodé Day 2: 1 December…
former German colonial sphere in the Pacific alone, there are over 1,200 human remains in the SPK’s collections. So there is still much to be done! "Human Remains" at the SPK Human remains in museum
19.09.2024 Reform Diary: Episode 1 The strategy for implementing the SPK’s future structures Article The first episode focuses on the path towards the ‘SPK 2030’ vision
Bavarian Forest, we discovered the remains of a mummified cat (Fig. 1). The cat under the roof piqued my curiosity, and I set out to investigate. How long had it been lying there? The Waldlerhaus, [...] appeared in the *Journal of the History of Ideas*: Issue XVIII/1, Spring 2024…
Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG). Subproject 1 covered the years 1930-1945 and Subproject 2 the catalogs from the years 1901-1929. The catalogs come from more than 390 auction houses