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• 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

• SPK restitutes 73 documents from the Warsaw Main Archives Alter Akten to Poland

  01.12.2025 - In the course of the German-Polish intergovernmental consultations, 73 documents from the time of the Teutonic Order from the holdings of the Prussian Secret State Archives were…

• Reform of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation finalised

  01.12.2025 - New SPK Act in force - Foundation Board elects Executive Board - Articles of Association and Rules of Procedure approved

• What the SPK museums have planned for the coming year Press conference on the 2026 programme preview

  17.11.2025 - From Constantin Brancusi to Verner Panton, from Genghis Khan to Paul Cassirer, from the discovery of community to heavy material - this is the spectrum of exhibition highlights…

• Return of a collection of plaster casts from Berlin to Jena

  10.11.2025 - Historical plaster casts from the University of Jena came into the care of the Collection of Classical Antiquities in 1983. After around forty years, the Prussian Cultural Heritage…

• New management of the German Digital Library

  06.11.2025 - The DDB has a new head of office, Dr Martin Breuer, from the first of December

• Milestone for a new cultural forum: berlin modern celebrates topping-out ceremony

  17.10.2025 - Shell of the extension to the Neue Nationalgalerie largely completed - Minister of State for Culture Weimer, SPK President Ackermann and Director Biesenbach emphasise the new…

• Restoration Day at the SPK on 19 October 2025

  30.09.2025 - The European Restoration Day will take place for the eighth time on 19 October 2025. The SPK institutions will also be offering exclusive insights into studios and exhibitions

• Save the Date: berlin modern celebrates topping-out ceremony - and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation invites you to open days at the construction site

  25.09.2025 - Topping-out ceremony on 17 October 2025 with Minister of State for Culture Weimer - Visitor days in the shell on 18 and 19 October 2025

• Restitution of a lost painting to the SPK

  23.09.2025 - On 23 September, the Belgian House of Representatives returned a painting by Friedrich Nerly to the SPK. It belonged to the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche…

• A print rarity by Albrecht Dürer: Hercules returns from Berlin to Kassel after 143 years

  19.09.2025 - Art and Culture Minister Timon Gremmels today received a work by Albrecht Dürer from Prof. Dr Marion Ackermann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, together…

• Almost 15,000 visitors to the Day in the Green at the Kulturforum Berlin - a paradise in the best autumn weather

  14.09.2025 - 15,000 visitors accepted the invitation to the fourth "Day in the Green" at the Kulturforum Berlin on 14 September 2025. The cultural and scientific institutions located there and…