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  1. SPK returns antique vases to Italy and receives long-term loans (13.06.2024)

    Closing date: 13.06.2024, 2.30 pm SPK restitutes 25 objects from the Collection of Classical Antiquities with dubious provenance to Italy - Contract signed with Minister of State for Culture Roth and Italian Minister of Culture Sangiuliano in Berlin - Parzinger: Restitution agreement intensifies coo

  2. 200 years of Museum Island Berlin: SPK celebrates a unique place of world culture for five years (25.02.2025)

    Kick-off weekend at the end of May / Parzinger: Every Berlin school class should visit the "island" at least once The "200 Years of Museum Island Berlin" anniversary, which the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will be organising together with numerous partners over the next five years, is set t

  3. Milestone reached in the refurbishment of the Pergamon Museum (04.12.2025)

    First construction phase structurally completed - Collection of Classical Antiquities, Museum of Islamic Art and Museum of the Ancient Near East furnish rooms - reopening in spring 2027 Construction work on the first phase of the Pergamon Museum will be completed at the end of the year. They include

  4. Provenance research is followed by mediation: Project to research human remains from West Africa is extended (04.07.2024)

    Provenance of historical skull collection researched - funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media enables mediation in West Africa Over a period of three years, researchers from the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin have been workin

  5. The SPK in EM fever: football summer in Dahlem, at the Kulturforum and in the Hamburger Bahnhof (28.06.2024)

    If you don't know how to bridge the time between the round of 16 and the quarter-finals without football, go to the Football Culture Summer, including at the SPK. On 4 July, it's all about fashion in football: Philipp Köster from 11 Freunde explains what Franz Beckenbauer has to do with the developm

  6. The "simplicity of the single element" (19.06.2024)

    Art-in-architecture competition for depots and workshops of the National Museums in Berlin decided The winning design "Ode to Care" by Rayyane Tabet will enrich the inner courtyard of the depots and workshops of the National Museums in Berlin-Friedrichshagen. The competition was organised by the Fed

  7. Emanuele Marconi becomes the new director of the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research (18.06.2024)

    Italian musicologist, restorer and curator with international experience in museum work takes over from Conny Restle on 15 July The Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research is getting a new director. The musicologist, restorer and curator Emanuele Marconi will take over fr

  8. Marion Ackermann to be the new President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation from June 2025 (08.07.2024)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) today unanimously elected Prof Dr Marion Ackermann as President of the Foundation. She will head the foundation from 1 June 2025 and succeed Prof. Dr Hermann Parzinger, who has held the position since March 2008 and will retire

  9. SPK Annual Report 2023 published: Focus on NS art theft (05.07.2024)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's institutions counted almost 4.5 million visitors in 2023. This success, which builds on the pre-corona period and is a great vote of confidence, is highlighted in the Annual Report 2023, which was published recently. He also looks at the important events -

  10. Colonnades of the Museum Island Berlin completed (29.08.2024)

    Final construction phase to restore the building to its original state completed Berlin. Under the direction of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), the listed colonnades on Berlin's Museum Island have been restored to their original state. The final construction phase, inclu