Search

Search

  1. Restitution to Alaska Natives (16.05.2018)

    Ethnological Museum returns grave goods to indigenous peoples from Southwestern Alaska and plans further co-operation with Chugach Alaska Corporation. On May 16, Hermann Parzinger, president of Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural heritage Foundation), handed over nine objects f

  2. Restitution of Nazi-looted art: SPK returns Pissarro painting (18.10.2021)

    Une Place à la Roche-Guyon by Camille Pissarro is returned to the Dorville heirs and purchased for the Alte Nationalgalerie The SPK has returned Une Place à la Roche-Guyon by Camille Pissarro to the heirs of Armand Dorville and bought it back from them for the Alte Nationalgalerie. Today, the repres

  3. 2019 visitor numbers for museums in Germany (18.01.2021)

    Figures reported to the Institut für Museumsforschung at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin amount to around 111.6 million visits during 2019. This corresponds to the high levels of previous years. Some 5,000 museums and 350 exhibition venues took part in the comprehensive statistical survey in 2019. T

  4. Worlds in the West Wing: Staatliche Museen open in the Humboldt Forum (22.09.2021)

    After years spent moving the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, they are finally on show in the heart of Berlin, with an additional focus on their colonial contexts. Together with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Minister of State for Culture Moni

  5. Reconsidering Schinkel’s Academy of Architecture (11.10.2016)

    Beginning in 2019, the Humboldt Forum will showcase the cultures of the world – but where in Berlin can museum-goers actually experience architecture? The SPK’s president, Hermann Parzinger, makes a plea for the completion of the historical center of Berlin. When the 175th anniversary of the death o

  6. The Humboldt Forum in Fast Motion (19.08.2015)

    Not far from the Museumsinsel (Museum Island), a home for the cultures of the world is being created in the new Berliner Schloss (Berlin Palace). In June 2015, two years after the cornerstone was laid, the topping out ceremony was held. Beginning in 2019, the planned Humboldt Forum in the reconstruc

  7. museum4punkt0: Developing and Sharing Digital Outreach Applications (24.06.2022)

    Twenty-seven projects organized by a variety of museums throughout Germany demonstrate the range of possibilities for digital cultural outreach At a show of work in progress held today in Berlin, institutions participating in the digital outreach project museum4punkt0 presented an overview of the ap

  8. SPK mourns Norbert Zimmermann (29.11.2021)

    Former vice president of the SPK dies at the age of 75 Norbert Zimmermann, formerly vice president of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), passed away last week in Berlin at the age of 75. Zimmermann worked for the Foundation for almost three decades, also

  9. Korean Cultural Center in Germany to support Museum für Asiatische Kunst (16.12.2021)

    The Korean Cultural Center in Germany and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz have signed an agreement that includes funding for a curator's position. The focus lies on research into the Korean collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The funds will go to

  10. Thank you, thank you, thank you, dear Pietzsches! (02.12.2016)

    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