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• Federal budget strengthens SPK

  05.09.2025 - Ackermann: Federal Government significantly strengthens the SPK - Thanks to Minister of State for Culture Weimer and the Bundestag Budget Committee

• A day in the countryside - summer festival at the Kulturforum Berlin

  02.09.2025 - On 14 September 2025, the Kulturforum Berlin will once again be transformed into a large event space - both indoors and outdoors. For the fourth time, the cultural and scientific…

• Homebase in the James-Simon-Galerie: Museum Island gets a place of information for its anniversary - opening on 9 September with the "Insel erzählen" project

  01.09.2025 - Actress Meike Droste meets the former head curator of the cuneiform collection at the Museum of the Ancient Near East, Joachim Marzahn

• Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation moderately raises admission prices at the Kulturforum and the Alte Nationalgalerie

  29.08.2025 - At the turn of the year, admission to Friedrichswerder Church will also be subject to a charge - New entrance situations

• Until 14 September: Season of the Kolonnaden Bar on Museum Island is extended

  28.08.2025 - Due to its great success and the good weather, SPK, the Berlin Vagabund brewery and visitBerlin want to run Berlin's most beautiful summer venue for a fortnight longer -…

• Love is everything - the SPK gives its all and participates with 17 museums in the Long Night of Museums on 30 August - Ackermann: The public can look forward to many attractions

  28.08.2025 - The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is taking part in the 43rd Long Night of Museums with 17 museums, which starts on 30 August under the motto "Love in Berlin". This year's…

• Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection becomes the new director of the Getty Villa in Los Angeles

  27.08.2025 - Prof Dr Verena Lepper, currently curator at the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, is leaving Berlin for California. The 52-year-old Egyptologist and orientalist will head the…

• Save the Date: Day in the Green at the Kulturforum Berlin

  29.07.2025 - On 14 September 2025, the Kulturforum Berlin will once again be transformed into a large event space - both indoors and outdoors. For the fourth time, the cultural and scientific…

• Change of office at the head of the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities: Martin Maischberger succeeds Andreas Scholl

  04.07.2025 - At the end of 2025, the Director of the Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Prof Dr Andreas Scholl, will retire after more than twenty years in…

• Five German cultural institutions restitute 221 books to the descendants of Henry Torrès

  26.06.2025 - On 26 June 2025 in Paris, five German cultural institutions handed over 221 books to the descendants of the well-known French lawyer, journalist and politician Henry Torrès…

• Cultural assets seized as a result of Nazi persecution: five German cultural institutions restitute 221 books to the descendants of Henry Torrès

  23.06.2025 - On 26 June 2025 in Paris, five German cultural institutions handed over 221 books to the descendants of the well-known French lawyer, journalist and politician Henry Torrès…

• "Art, looting, restitution - forgotten life stories": SPK and SKD cooperate for educational project on Nazi art looting

  10.06.2025 - "Art, looting and restitution" continues with a new focus - Forgotten Jewish life stories as a starting point for democracy education in museums - Funding from the Federal Ministry…

• Renewed funding from Berliner Sparkasse secures programmes for children and young people from Ukraine until summer 2026

  05.06.2025 - Welcome! Museum club for children and young people from Ukraine at Haus Bastian receives follow-up funding of 50,000 euros from Berliner Sparkasse - continuation of successful work…

• Berlin's most beautiful summer venue: the Kolonnaden Bar on Museum Island reopens

  04.06.2025 - SPK, the Berlin Vagabund Brewery and visitBerlin start the new season together - with over 50 free events and the island beer "Wissensdurst" - Kolonnaden-Bar opens between 5 June…

• Celebration on World Heritage Day: Berlin's Museum Island turns 200

  01.06.2025 - Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer, Berlin's Senator for Culture Sarah Wedl-Wilson and the new SPK President Marion Ackermann appeal not only to preserve the Museum…

• Ceremony at the Neues Museum: Hermann Parzinger bids farewell as President of the SPK, Marion Ackermann inaugurated

  27.05.2025 - Minister of State for Culture Weimer, Saxony's Prime Minister Kretschmer and Senator for Culture Wedl-Wilson honour formative years - speeches by Markschies and Chipperfield

• SPK Board of Trustees approves agreement between the public sector and the House of Hohenzollern on disputed ownership issues

  26.05.2025 - Ownership of disputed collections will be transferred to a foundation under private law - SPK gives up objects as part of a compensation scheme - Parzinger: Museum visitors stand…

• Museum Island Berlin

  22.05.2025 - Celebrating a world star: 200 years of Museum Island Berlin - The big island festival from 30 May to 1 June 2025 Lots on offer for free and outdoors - With the island day ticket…

• 100 years of Bauhaus Dessau - an anniversary kick-off at the Neue Nationalgalerie from 13 to 15 June 2025

  19.05.2025 - For one weekend, Mies van der Rohe's building will focus on the materiality of modernism under the motto "On the substance"

• Altes Museum and Bode Museum reopen on Tuesdays from 3 June

  14.05.2025 - The Altes Museum and the Bode-Museum will reopen on Tuesdays from 3 June 2025. This extension of services will be accompanied by an adjustment to the admission price in both…