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Award Ceremony Cultural Hackathon „Coding Da Vinci“ in the Mainz State Museum
On December 1st, the winners of the Cultural Hackathon “Coding Da Vinci Rhein-Main” ("Coding Da Vinci Rhine-Main") were determined in Mainz. With a festive award ceremony in the...
We are the DDB: Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication
The Museum Foundation Post and Telecommunication is unique in Germany with its collections. These document the historic development of the postal and telecommunication service with its...
We are the DDB: Gleimhaus - Museum of the German Enlightenment
The Gleimhaus is one of the oldest German literary museums, established in 1862 in the former residential building of the poet and collector Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim (1719-1803) at...
Performance, Speed, New Usage Scenarios – Modernisation of Total Architecture Secures Sustainability of the DDB
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) has put into operation a completely renewed system architecture on the basis of sustainable technologies and thus has...
The Digital Horizon 02: „Gerda Koepff, pioneering collector of Art Nouveau glass“
In a series of guest contributions, we will present exciting topics and projects of data and cooperation partners of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek in the future: be it a new way of...
We are the DDB: The Schloss- und Spielkartenmuseum Altenburg (Castle and Playing Card Museum Altenburg)
The Schloss- und Spielkartenmuseum Altenburg almost classically embodies the type of association within a larger and regionally anchored museum – a „multidisciplinary institution“. It...
The Digital Horizon 01: „Eventful Years – A Web Journal for the Exploration of Art Nouveau“
In a series of guest contributions, we will present exciting topics and projects of data and cooperation partners of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek in the future: be it a new way of...
We are the DDB: Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum of Film and Television
Collecting, storing, indexing, presenting and communicating the audiovisual heritage – these have been the tasks of the Deutsche Kinemathek since it was opened in Berlin in 1963. The...
We are the DDB: The Lette Verein Berlin
The Lette Association Berlin is a foundation under public law and bears the term “association” merely in its name. At its prominent location at Viktoria-Luise-Platz in Schöneberg the...
We are the DDB: The Museum of Art and Design Hamburg
With around 500,000 objects from 4,000 years of the history of mankind, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) (Museum of Art and Design Hamburg) is one of the most important...
A Short Cultural History of Rain or Why Rain assists Democracy
In the history of mankind rain, as a cultural phenomenon, has had and still has the most diverse forms and influences: at this point we would like to talk about hydraulic empires, royal...
We are the DDB: The Museum Ludwig in Köln
The Museum Ludwig is one of the most important museums for the art of the 20th century as well as contemporary art in Germany. It was founded in 1976 on the occasion of the gift of 350...
#12of12: The Archives Department of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek and the Archivportal-D – A Portrait in Twelve Pictures
On a very rainy Monday afternoon in Berlin, I take the train to Stuttgart to visit my colleagues from the Archives Department and the Archivportal-D, the sector-specific access to the...
We are the DDB: University Library of Kassel - State Library and Murhard Library of the City of Kassel
The University Library of Kassel - State Library and Murhard Library of the City of Kassel is the library system of the University of Kassel existing in this form since 1976. As the...
We are the DDB: The Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek Fulda
In 1776 the Fürstbischof (Prince-Bishop) Heinrich von Bibra founded a public library in Fulda. It consisted of holdings which had been collected for the most part in the convent library...
We are the DDB: The Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
The Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg (University Library of Heidelberg) is the central library in the library system of the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. The central library...
We are the DDB: The Deutsches Historisches Museum
The Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) is the national history museum of the Federal Republic of Germany. Situated in the historic centre of Berlin it presents...
We are the DDB: The FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum Berlin
The FHXB Museum is one of twelve regional museums of Berlin. It was built in 2004 after the unification of the two districts Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg as a merger of the Kreuzberg...
We are the DDB: The Institut für Stadtgeschichte in Frankfurt am Main - “The memory of Frankfurt”
The Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt am Main, until 1992 referred to as “City archive”, is one of the most important German municipal archives and has a provable history reaching...
The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek at the large trade fairs in March
If you visit the CeBIT in Hanover or the Library Congress and the Book Fair in Leipzig in March, you are very welcome to pay us a visit at our stands. This year we are present at the...