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• “What’s going on, SPK?” – The 2025 Annual Report focuses on the new foundation

  07.09.2026 - 2025 was a year that saw a number of changes for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: a new Executive Board was appointed, the new Foundation Act came into force, and Marion…

• A day in the countryside at the Kulturforum Berlin

  07.09.2026 - On Sunday 13 September 2026, the Kulturforum Berlin is hosting the fifth edition of its major festival, ‘A Day in the Green’. This year’s focus is on the Kulturforum’s diverse…

• From audio guides to a comprehensive digital visitor experience – the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Bloomberg launch a partnership for digital education and outreach

  01.09.2026 - Expansion of digital outreach – including new ways to access content, in-depth material and new feedback channels – Ackermann: “We are strengthening education and outreach as the…

• What’s on in 2027: Highlights at the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

  31.08.2026 - Thomas Gainsborough: 300th anniversary, Ai Weiwei at the Bode Museum, Arnold Böcklin beyond the myth, international abstraction, artist’s books by Jonathan Meese and pharaohs you…

• Art thieves, forgers and the search for clues: the SPK at the Long Night of Museums

  19.08.2026 - At the Museum, Crime Scene: SPK once again the biggest player at the Long Night of Museums on 29 August – Ackermann: Searching for clues in thirteen venues – Germany’s best-known…

• Kulturforum invites you to its Tag im Grünen (Day in the Countryside) – tickets now on sale

  14.08.2026 - On 13 September 2026, the Kulturforum Berlin will once again be transformed into a large event venue – both indoors and outdoors. For the fifth time, the cultural and academic…

• KEK is funding four projects run by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation

  16.07.2026 - Documents from Westphalia, previously secret records relating to a North Indian musical tradition, 25 photographs and 200,000 theatre programmes – restoration projects at four SPK…

• The Weimar Classical Foundation is appearing for the third time at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation with its ‘Weimar Room’

  30.06.2026 - A travelling exhibition marking the themed years ‘Opening’ and ‘Feminine Weimar’ is on display at the James Simon Gallery on Berlin’s Museum Island until the end of the year.

• American Independence Day – SPK programme highlight

  29.06.2026 - Press invitation: ‘We the People’ – a programme initiative to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence

• Artist Karin Sander pays tribute to Johanna and Eduard Arnhold and the residents of the Tiergarten district

  24.06.2026 - Karin Sander, a conceptual artist based in Berlin, will develop an artistic remembrance project that uses original quotations, interviews, music and sound collages to commemorate…

• Handover of cultural artefacts at the German-Polish Forum on 17 June 2026

  17.06.2026 - Joint press release from the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), the Federal…

• The SPK returns seven books to the descendants of Marc Bloch and Simonne Vidal

  28.05.2026 - Cultural property confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution: Three German cultural institutions return seven books to the descendants of Marc Bloch and Simonne Vidal – a ceremony…

• Democracy Day on 7 June at the Island Festival: Who does the black, red and gold belong to?

  21.05.2026 - Organisations from across Germany will be showcasing their work on UNESCO World Heritage Day on Berlin’s Museum Island – a performance by Gabriele Stötzer – young people debating…

• The date is set – Pergamonmuseum returns on June 4, 2027!

  04.05.2026 - First day open to the public at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin: June 4, 2027 – Pergamon Altar, Islamic Art Collection and highlights from Babylonia will be presented in new display –…

• Results of provenance research on skulls from West Africa published – provenance research on nearly 600 skulls completed

  22.04.2026 - As part of a project launched in 2021, the Museum of Prehistory and Early History at the State Museums in Berlin has investigated the provenance of nearly 600 skulls from the…

• 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.…