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“If you have findings, then you have to act on them.”
12.02.2018 - On February 12, 2018, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, talked to the Tagesspiegel about the Humboldt Forum, ways of dealing with objects from…
In the Witch's Cottage: Visiting Leni Riefenstahl
12.02.2018 - The estate of Leni Riefenstahl was recently donated to the SPK. It all had to be packed up in her house in Pöcking on a one-week ‘flash expedition’ in late 2017 and brought to…
Contract Signed With Herzog & de Meuron
05.02.2018 - Now it is all signed and sealed: the Swiss architectural practice will see its design for the Museum des 20. Jahrhundert built on the Kulturforum.
Works from the Kunstgewerbemuseum and Skulpturensammlung restituted to Oppenheim heirs
22.01.2018 - The SPK has worked successfully with the heirs to reach a good solution for Nazi-confiscated cultural property.
Soil Tests Begin for Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts
20.12.2017 - Next planning step initiated – First soil tests for the building site at the Kulturforum.
Michael Eissenhauer: “Comprehending the World in its Entirety “
21.11.2017 - On 25 November 2017 admission is free on the Museumsinsel and at the Kulturforum for the Activities Day “On the Way to the Humboldt Forum“. We spoke with Michael Eissenhauer,…
Generous Donation: Two Ruble Gold Coin Completes Set
14.11.2017 - Vladimir Matveyev's gift to the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is valuable in more than one way: the two-ruble gold coin of Catherine the Great completes the set…
"Kunst durch Kredit" – on the short article "Berliner Blamage" in DER SPIEGEL, issue 45/2017
07.11.2017 - The subject of Kunst durch Kredit [Art as collateral ] (De Gruyter, 2017) is the purchase of some 4,400 works of art from the holdings of the Dresdner Bank by the government of…
The Whole of Bach in One Mass
20.10.2017 - Conductor Ton Koopman on the Mass in B Minor, a treasure of the Staatsbibliothek that now also belongs to the Memory of the World – performed in three concerts by the Berlin…
Is East only East and West only West?
16.10.2017 - The New Neighbors have arrived on the Museumsinsel. Giving an evening lecture in the Alte Nationalgalerie, Yuko Nakama, a Japanese expert on Caspar David Friedrich, inquired into…