Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) owns around 1,200 objects from the everyday culture and popular art of various social classes in the nineteenth century, originating from areas in [...] foyer, which now bears the name "Motion Detector." Motion Detector #1 was…
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
für Asiatische Kunst has been closed to the public since January 1, 2017, while we get everything ready for the move to the Humboldt Forum. I have long been planning to use this time to sort out the [...] digitally recorded in its entirety, only in part [as a catalog of 1,200 selected…
The second major project was the exhibition ‘Russians and Germans: 1,000 Years of Art, History and Culture’, which was shown in 2012 at the Historical Museum in Moscow and the Neues Museum in Berlin. We
our metadata – and we are currently in the process of converting 1 million index cards containing sheet music, books, libretti and sound recordings from the music department, in other words, making
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
Why don't you go over there? On 1 January 1991, after years of division, the collections of the Prussian Cultural Heritage scattered between East and West were reunited
, and were destroyed as supposed devil’s work or sold. Around 1,500 Naga objects are now housed in the Ethnological Museum, which is planning an open-access platform dedicated to them. Together with
bass parts and really let rip on the now legendary Höfner Model 500/1. The company was founded in 1877 by the guitar and violin maker Karl Höfner and was based in Schönbach, now known as Luby in the Czech [...] a ‘violin-shaped’ guitar whose design resembles the Höfner 500/1. This…
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 easily hide inside it – but