who were previously under the General Directorate, were transferred directly to the museums as of 1 July 2023. Furthermore, since January 2024, the museums and institutes have been allocated independent [...] rested with the SPK and not with its institutions. All these changes have…
the institutions’ organisational structures as they were before reunification. We only merged them on 1 January 1992. We avoided the impression of a simple takeover by the West. In all cases where a Western
in September 1989, he could not have imagined what turbulent times lay ahead. He took up his post on 1 April 1990 and tackled the unexpected challenge with incredible energy. I later learnt from him that
the Humboldt Forum. As it is relatively large, it will be difficult to replace. Standing at around 1.10 metres tall, it is the largest ceramic in our collection. The storage vessel is so wide that I could
to do with minced meat or ball sports, but is a masterpiece of space efficiency: what stretches over 1.50 metres in length on a bassoon – the tube – has here been coiled into a spiral and packed inside a
Kirchner and Pablo Picasso, right through to Andy Warhol and Gerhard Richter. It holds works spanning 1,000 years of art, cultural and media history, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The collection
coating applied to 15,000 square meters of the steel structure and 500 weld seams repaired, as well as 1,600 square meters of new glass fitted. 800 existing ceiling lights converted to LED technology, 196
we have: the original manuscripts of the 4th, 5th, 8th and 9th symphonies, and Piano Concertos no. 1-3 and 5. Why does the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin have so many of Beethoven’s best works? Part of the
new splendour, whilst in the north wing the Museum of Islamic Art awaits visitors, displaying almost 1,000 objects across two floors instead of the previous 400. The Museum of the Ancient Near East will