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  1. 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

  2. Federal President Steinmeier and Minister of State for Culture Roth open the exhibition "From Odesa to Berlin. European Painting from the 16th to 19th Century" in the Gemäldegalerie (23.01.2025)

    Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth, together with the Ukrainian Minister of Culture Mykola Tochytskyi, are today opening the exhibition "From Odesa to Berlin. European Painting of the 16th to 19th Centuries" in the Picture Gallery of the Prussian

  3. The winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2025 in the violin and piano trio categories (21.01.2025)

    The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2025 ended with a spectacular final concert at the Konzerthaus Berlin on Sunday evening. This year, the competition was held in the violin and piano trio categories. In the final round of the solo category and the final prizewinners' concert, th

  4. Federal and state governments conclude new funding agreement for the SPK / Parzinger: Historic step and important signal for the reform process (03.01.2025)

    Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the Minister Presidents of the federal states have agreed on a new funding agreement for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) by circular resolution. According to the agreement, the federal and state governments will increase their annual contributions t

  5. German Bundestag passes new law on the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (31.01.2025)

    Parzinger: This is the keystone of our reform / New law to come into force on 1 December 2025 On Friday night (31 January), the German Bundestag passed a new law for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. SPK President Hermann Parzinger commented: "The new SPK Act is a decisive step towards guid

  6. Egidio Marzona donates rare first books of conceptual art to the art library (24.01.2025)

    Collector transfers important works from the 1960s from Bruce Nauman to Lawrence Weiner / Parzinger: Important documents on the emergence of artistic ideas The collector Egidio Marzona has once again made a significant donation to the Art Library. Following the exhibition The Very First Edition. Art

  7. Portal on coins of the Ostrogoths launched (17.02.2025)

    Together with international partners, the Münzkabinett Berlin has set up a new digital type catalogue on the coinage of the Ostrogoths in Italy, the OCOI - Online Coinage of Ostrogothic Italy. For the first time, the digital catalogue allows freely available research within the coinage of the Ostrog

  8. Between construction site and opening - large-scale architecture of the Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamonmuseum under construction (11.02.2025)

    Large parts of the Pergamon Museum will reopen in spring 2027. The Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Museum of Islamic Art will present their highlights in the north wing and central building. While construction work is still underway in some of their rooms, the antique artefacts are alrea

  9. SPK restitutes three Kogi objects (10.02.2025)

    Her Excellency Yadir Salazar Mejía, Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia, and Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, today signed an agreement on the transfer of ownership of three ritual artefacts from the Kogi. They had been on loan to the SPK in Bogota since October 2024. The foundation had a

  10. Welfenschatz: SPK once again agrees to proceedings before the Advisory Commission (03.03.2025)

    SPK agrees to proceedings before Advisory Commission despite unresolved issues - goal must be a solution for all potential beneficiaries The Guelph Treasure has been the subject of various restitution claims since 2008. In 2014, following a thorough examination, the Advisory Commission recommended t