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
study was a representative survey of the general public covering all museums in Germany, with over 1,000 respondents. The President of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Ulrike Lorenz, recently spoke in SPIEGEL
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
collection, Divided Heaven . He has been the acting director of the Nationalgalerie since November 1, 2020. Jacques Herzog The Swiss architect was born in Basel in 1950. In 1970 he began studying at ETH
picture agency has created an almost unique selling point in Germany. In total, we now have almost 1 million images online, which anyone is free to browse. You only have to register with us if you want
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
Friedrich Schinkel, probably c. 1808/1809, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Inv. No. SM 1a.4, 2011. Image: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett / CC BY-SA-NC 4.0 The SPK Lab The
for this project I’m only looking at acquisitions made between 1933 and 1945. That amounts to about 1,200 works. In the first phase of the project, that number was reduced still further. First, I checked
28.07.2023 In Focus 2022: SPK puts itself to the test – Part 1: Dahlem Article The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is in the throes of reform. Autonomy for the institutions, a strong network, and
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