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Eighty years ago today, the Nazis opened their propaganda exhibition „Degenerate Art“ in Munich. The SPK sees it as her their duty to ensure that the horrors and effects of this defamatory and denunciatory event are never forgotten. SPK President Hermann Parzinger spoke about the National Socialists

Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (DOG) has had, from the time it was founded in 1898, close relationships to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In 2012 the DOG and the SPK decided to collaborate even more closely. The collaboration thus far between the Deutsche Orient-Gese

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 (Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection), a museum district for High Modernist ar

Archäologische Promenade The Archäologische Promenade will eventually connect four of the five historical buildings on the Museumsinsel. It will also place the contents of the archaeological collections in relationship to each other. The promenade's first sections are already in use. The Archäologis

SPK is closely observing current developments concerning COVID-19 and has set up a crisis team for this purpose. Details on the handling in the individual museums, libraries and archives of SPK can be found on their websites. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is closely monitoring the dynami

Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch have been collecting great art for fifty years. Now, they are donating to the City of Berlin approximately 150 works by artists of the modern period, such as Max Ernst, René Magritte, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. The pictures will be permanently displayed at the new mus

This year, the Berlinale Summer Special is being held as an outdoor event from June 9 to 20, 2021. The main venue is the Museumsinsel in Berlin. The Berlinale Summer Special of the Berlin International Film Festival is scheduled to take place from June 9 to 20, 2021, at 16 different outdoor location

Central Storage Facility of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin The building in Friedrichshagen will provide storage and workshops for various collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The shared location is expected to result in synergetic effects. Computer simulation of the entrance to the new b

One of the Foundation’s greatest patrons was James Simon. His great-granddaughter, an award-winning American filmmaker, wants to learn more, and to tell her family's forgotten history in a documentary. Chris Simon is a little surprised. Almost everyone in Berlin seems to know more about her great-gr

The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung is the secret star of the new Netflix series "Unorthodox" – so before your next binge-watching session, why not check out what the institute itself has to offer online? By Julia Spinola If you’re planning on binge-watching Netflix to forget the pandemic aft