Avant-gardes , which opened this year 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
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
(curator at the 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 [...] this area: 24 The meeting is very emotional, but friendly and warm…
provenance research is. From the 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
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 and the establishment of new structures
first appeared in the *Journal of the History of Ideas*: Issue XVIII/1, Spring 2024 *Journal of the History of Ideas* Hunger Issue XVIII/1, Spring 2024 Hoppe, Kaufmann, Weissberg, Thun-Hohenstein How can one [...] roof of our “headquarters” in the Bavarian Forest, we discovered the…
that were supported by Deutsche 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