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Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments on the purchase of the Hamburg railway station and the associated Rieckhallen by the Federal Government and the State of Berlin: "What news: a great moment in cultural policy! It's great that the federal government a

Budget Committee approves 9.9 million euros - Roth and Parzinger welcome decision Yesterday, the Bundestag's Budget Committee released 9.9 million euros to make the Museum of the 20th Century, which is currently being built at the Kulturforum, more sustainable. The SPK is now intensively involved in

SPK joins sustainability action network and signs sustainability declaration for the cultural sector - Parzinger: Making sustainability the basis of our actions As of today, the SPK is a partner of the Action Network Sustainability in Culture and Media (ANKM). The network, which is funded by the Fed

Parzinger: We are ready for immediate return and are waiting for signals from the countries of origin In a project launched in 2017, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin) worked with scientis

1st prize in the planning competition goes to the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) The competition organised by the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) as the project sponsor and client for the basic renov

Dr Sibylle Hoiman will be the new Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts at the National Museums in Berlin. This was decided by the SPK Foundation Board at its meeting on 5 December 2022. The art historian, who currently heads the Architectural Art Archive at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, su

Overall statistical survey by the Institute for Museum Research shows Visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in Germany remained at around a third of the pre-pandemic level in the second year of coronavirus in 2021 The results of the Institute for Museum Research's overall statistical sur

Ten Benin objects from the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage will be physically restituted to Nigeria in a few days. They are among the 514 Benin objects for which the SPK already transferred ownership to Nigeria in the summer. On 25 August 2022, Herm

Three works from the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen restituted, one of which remains in the museum as a gift from descendants On Wednesday, 15 February 2023, the SPK restituted three works from the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to the heirs of the lawyer Ismar Lit

On Friday 20 January, the SPK returned a statuette of a 16th century Maria Lactans (Nursing Mother of God) to the heirs of the Jewish banker and entrepreneur Jakob Goldschmidt. The work had been acquired in 1936 for the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (then: Königliche Museen