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Fair and equitable solution: SPK restitutes five works to the heirs of the owners of the Matthiesen Gallery - one work remains in the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin In 1935, Dresdner Bank sold around 4,400 works of art to the Prussian state, which handed them over to the museums. Si

Stefan Simon, Director of the Rathgen Research Laboratory at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, is the first SPK employee to be awarded a Distinguished Research Chair by the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Programme. In the academic year 2024-2025, Simon will work on his research project "Cultural Heritage and

The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2025 will take place from 15 to 19 January. This year, Germany's oldest competition for young talent in classical music will be held in the violin and piano trio categories. Ulf Werner, orchestra director of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, will

From 2025, Museum Island Berlin will be celebrating its 200th anniversary - starting with the anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone for the Altes Museum on 9 July. The travel company Flix and SPK have joined forces to enable even more people to enjoy culture and publicise the island's an

Gold hat and Nefertiti, Cleopatra and Caspar David Friedrich, Canova and Pergamon. The curved façade of the Bode Museum, the temple of the Alte Nationalgalerie, the resurrected Neues Museum and the idyllic Kolonnadenhof. The Museum Island is one of Berlin's main attractions and one of the world's to

The life-size figure "Le Drame Lyrique", also known as the "Violinist", once adorned the foyer of the Opéra Comique. Until 1932, the work by French sculptor Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900) was displayed in the foyer of the third oldest theatre institution in Paris. After being transferred to the Mus

Another rise in visitor numbers to German museums and exhibition centres - And: ongoing study by the Institute for Museum Research shows that public funding invested in museums has doubled Museums and exhibition centres in Germany continue to enjoy increasing popularity. This is shown by the overall

Restitution of Nazi-looted property to descendants of the politically persecuted writer Eduard Fuchs - Chinese object from the Ethnological Museum handed over The SPK has today restituted a Chinese ridge turret figure from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin t

Human remains that were in the collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin were returned to Australia today, 5 December 2024. Together with the Australian Embassy, the Ethnological Museum organised a memorial service for the ancestors, who are now travelling home. They w

The former piazzetta at the entrance to the museums at the Kulturforum was today named after Johanna and Eduard Arnhold. This commemorates the Jewish couple who patronised art, culture and science during the imperial era and the Weimar Republic. With the naming of the square, the museums at the Kult