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A total of 19 refugees from Syria and Iraq are being trained as museum guides so that they can lead compatriots through the Pergamon Museum, the Bode Museum and the German Historical Museum in their native language. The title of the project is programmatic: "Multaka" means "meeting point" in Arabic

Corona soon had the world in its grip for a year and a half. Everyone's lives had been fundamentally changed by the pandemic. This grip is now loosening. Hygiene measures are gradually being scaled back - and public life is getting back on track. New perspectives are opening up - including for the P

Parzinger: We want to react more flexibly to visitor flows in future The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will change the opening hours of the National Museums in Berlin and the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research from 16 April 2024. SPK President Hermann Parzing

Children between the ages of four and six are at the centre of a new educational project entitled "4plus - Children in the Museum", in which the National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Foundation want to work together with Berlin's FRÖBEL kindergartens in the long term. "4plus - Children

National Museums in Berlin Glimpses of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Multiteaser headline Bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti © SPK / Pierre Adenis The Menzel Room of the Alte Nationalgalerie © SPK / Pierre Adenis Storage facility for the collection of classical antiquities in the Archäologisches

Charlottenburg In the years when Germany was divided, Charlottenburg was the home primarily for the Foundation’s archaeological collections. Since 1996, with the addition of the Museum Berggruen, and later with the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, a museum district for High Modernist art was established

31.08.2017 So Why Is It Taking So Long? Article Hanna Strzoda, provenance researcher in a project examining acquisitions for the “Sammlung der Zeichnungen” made between 1933 and 1945, and Anna Pfäfflin, curator for 19th-century art in the Kupferstichkabinett, describe the typical problems they encou

06.09.2017 PREP: Building a Research Autobahn Article In September, 21 German and American museum professionals will meet in Berlin to learn about issues of provenance research in both countries. Jane Milosch, Director of the Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative, explains how the German/Americ

Institutions and Services The foundation brings together 25 institutions: museums, libraries, archives and research institutes. The Central Service Unit is the central service provider for the institutions in administrative matters. The facilities include a museum, archive and library. They also com

Guidelines for the Treatment of Human Remains Human remains in museum collections must be treated with special sensitivity. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is one of many museums that have human remains among their holdings. The SPK has established basic principles for dealing with human remains and