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  1. Growing interest in museums and exhibition centres in Germany: over 113 million visits in 2007 (06.10.2008)

    The Institute for Museum Research at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz has completed and analysed the statistical survey of visitor numbers to museums in the Federal Republic of Germany for 2007. Museums in Germany had a total of 107,303,946 visits in 2007. Compared to 2006, t

  2. Foundation Board decides: Ralph Gleis will continue as director of the Alte Nationalgalerie (28.06.2022)

    This appointment completes the reorganisation of the Nationalgalerie network - Parzinger: Ralph Gleis has completely revitalised the Alte Nationalgalerie with an innovative and contemporary programme - Gleis: moving forward into the future with momentum Ralph Gleis will be the future director of the

  3. Acquisition of the private collection of drawings: The "Kleine Klebeband" of the Princes of Waldburg-Wolfegg (07.10.2011)

    A major acquisition by the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, the Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung and the Free State of Bavaria, supported by the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Rudolf-August Oetker Stiftung f

  4. "Collecting - Donating - Supporting. Jewish patrons in German society" (30.11.2006)

    On 11 December 2006, starting at 10 a.m. (all day) at the Kunstgewerbemuseum - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin PK Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, 10785 Berlin Not least against the backdrop of the current debate on the restitution of artworks, it seems appropriate to further research and publicise the enor

  5. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation cancels Tehran exhibition (27.12.2016)

    Parzinger: Iran still not granting export licence for artworks - SPK committed to cultural dialogue The planned exhibition "The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin" at the Berlin Gemäldegalerie will now not be able to take place as planned. As the President of the Prus

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes alabaster relief - whereabouts in the Berlin Sculpture Collection secured (30.11.2009)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) recently returned a late medieval alabaster relief to the heiress of its former owner Harry Fuld Junior, the Magen David Adom UK (MDAUK), the English funding organisation of the Israeli aid organisation Red Star of David. However, the work, which was t

  7. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes work from the Haussmann Collection / Repurchase secures its place in the Kupferstichkabinett (06.01.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned a work from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heiress of art collector Dr Fritz Haussmann. However, the allegorical drawing of the 18th century architect Jean Baptiste Broebes will remain in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which acquired it f

  8. Successful interplay of landscape architecture and art - decision of the interdisciplinary competition for outdoor facilities and art in the building of the plaster moulding workshop of the National Museums in Berlin (23.12.2024)

    A Berlin team from the disciplines of landscape architecture and art will design the outdoor areas of the plaster moulding workshop of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (SMB) following its basic restoration and extension. With their design, the offices 100Landschaftsarchitektur and studiofutura with t

  9. How Leni Riefenstahl’s self-image might be deconstructed (30.03.2026)

    It was a heavy burden that the SPK took on eight years ago: When Horst Kettner, Leni Riefenstahl’s cameraman, partner and estate administrator, died in 2018, the estate of the litigious filmmaker of Nazi party rallies, Hitler confidante and lifelong denier of wrongdoing came into the Foundation’s ca

  10. How Leni Riefenstahl’s self-image might be deconstructed (30.03.2026)

    It was a heavy burden that the SPK took on eight years ago: When Horst Kettner, Leni Riefenstahl’s cameraman, partner and estate administrator, died in 2018, the estate of the litigious filmmaker of Nazi party rallies, Hitler confidante and lifelong denier of wrongdoing came into the Foundation’s ca