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• Symposium on cultural and political education in museums – Perspectives on the Beutelsbach Consensus

  07.04.2026 - Fifty years ago, three key guiding principles of political education were formulated in Beutelsbach, Baden-Württemberg. To this day, this so-called Beutelsbach Consensus serves as…

• Delve into the depths of the SPK’s collection histories – at the eighth Provenance Research Day on 8 April 2026

  26.03.2026 - A rediscovered Madonna, the history of the sculpture collection, the networks of Surrealism, talking mats, and the responsible handling of human remains – all of this is linked to…

• The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbeitz and its museums mourn the loss of Egidio Marzona

  16.03.2026 - On 15 March 2026, the Italian art collector and patron Egidio Marzona (born 1944 in Bielefeld) passed away in Berlin surrounded by his family and friends.

• Annual reception and focal points of the SPK in 2026

  27.02.2026 - Annual reception at the James-Simon-Galerie - Ackermann: We offer a strong programme and face challenges - good visitor balance 2025 - focus on educational and mediation work

• SPK restitutes a statuette to the heirs of Charlotte Prybram-Gladona

  23.02.2026 - The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted the sculpture of a "Christ at the Column" from the collection of the journalist and publisher Albin von Prybram-Gladona.…

• Card catalogues of the State Library will continue to be preserved for the time being

  16.02.2026 - Great interest in researching card catalogues at State Library symposium - catalogues will be preserved for the time being

• Course set for the refurbishment of the State Library at the Kulturforum - start of preparatory measures

  12.02.2026 - Scharoun's listed architectural icon urgently needs to be renovated - redesigned into a modern, sustainable, user-friendly library - complex construction project with relocation of…

• The estate of Leni Riefenstahl - an interim balance of research

  30.01.2026 - Exploitation of a collection under complex conditions - ethical-legal questions and artistic debate

• SPK restitutes Lovis Corinth painting from the Littmann Collection and subsequently receives it as a gift for the Alte Nationalgalerie

  27.01.2026 - The SPK has restituted the painting "Eleonore von Wilke" by Lovis Corinth from the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie to the heirs of Ismar and Käthe Littmann. They…

• Press conference at the Museum of Photography: The estate of Leni Riefenstahl - an interim balance of research

  22.01.2026 - Leni Riefenstahl's estate - donated to the SPK in 2018 in disorganised boxes containing photos, films, notes, letters, manuscripts and other documents - has since been successively…

• SPK co-operates with Moroccan museum foundation

  15.01.2026 - Marion Ackermann signs Memorandum of Understanding with Fondation Nationale des Musées in Rabat - collaboration planned for research, capacity building and exhibitions

• Partnership between SPK and museum in Mumbai

  14.01.2026 - Collection of Classical Antiquities and Museum of the Ancient Near East involved in the exhibition "Networks of the Past. A Study Gallery of India & the Ancient World" in Mumbai -…

• Prizewinners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2026

  12.01.2026 - The winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2026 in the subjects of piano and chamber music with wind instruments

• Power outage in Berlin: free admission to SPK museums

  06.01.2026 - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation grants free admission to its museums up to and including Thursday for those affected by the power outage

• Launch of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2026

  06.01.2026 - The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2026 starts on 7 January in the subjects of piano and chamber music with wind instruments

• Slight increase in visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in 2024

  16.12.2025 - The Institute for Museum Research reports: 107.4 million visits to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 - museums show more special exhibitions again - data collected for zoos,…

• Henrietta Lidchi becomes the new director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art

  11.12.2025 - Henrietta Lidchi will be the new Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art as well as Director of the Collections in the Humboldt Forum from May 2026.

• Christmas offers from the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

  09.12.2025 - Why not give the gift of a visit to the museum!

• Milestone reached in the refurbishment of the Pergamon Museum

  04.12.2025 - First construction phase structurally completed - Collection of Classical Antiquities, Museum of Islamic Art and Museum of the Ancient Near East furnish rooms - reopening in spring…

• Repatriations from the Ethnological Museum:

  02.12.2025 - Foundation Board authorises Marion Ackermann to return objects with human remains to Ghana and to hold talks with Australian authorities about spiritual objects