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  1. What the SPK museums have planned for the coming year Press conference on the 2026 programme preview (17.11.2025)

    From Constantin Brancusi to Verner Panton, from Genghis Khan to Paul Cassirer, from the discovery of community to heavy material - this is the spectrum of exhibition highlights with which the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library and the State Institute for Music Research hope to attr

  2. New management of the German Digital Library (06.11.2025)

    The DDB has a new head of office, Dr Martin Breuer, from the first of December Gero Dimter, Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Deputy Director of the German Digital Library, explains: "We would like to thank Dr Julia Spohr for her work and wish her every success in her n

  3. Return of a collection of plaster casts from Berlin to Jena (10.11.2025)

    Historical plaster casts from the University of Jena came into the care of the Collection of Classical Antiquities in 1983. After around forty years, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has returned the collection to its place of origin. The collection of almost 400 plaster casts of ancient sc

  4. Henrietta Lidchi becomes the new director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art (11.12.2025)

    Henrietta Lidchi will be the new Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art as well as Director of the Collections in the Humboldt Forum from May 2026. She succeeds Lars-Christian Koch, who has moved to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony. Henrietta Lidchi studied Anthr

  5. Christmas offers from the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (09.12.2025)

    Why not give the gift of a visit to the museum! Christmas offers from the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation - with an annual ticket 2026 to Brancusi, Panton or Dschinghis Khan No present yet? Why not save yourself the stress of Christmas and take a relaxed look at our online shops

  6. Slight increase in visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 (16.12.2025)

    The Institute for Museum Research reports: 107.4 million visits to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 - museums show more special exhibitions again - data collected for zoos, animal parks and botanical gardens for the first time Museums and exhibition centres in Germany enjoyed a 1.3 percent inc

  7. SPK co-operates with Moroccan museum foundation (15.01.2026)

    Marion Ackermann signs Memorandum of Understanding with Fondation Nationale des Musées in Rabat - collaboration planned for research, capacity building and exhibitions The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation intends to work more closely with Moroccan museums in the future. During a visit to Rabat

  8. Power outage in Berlin: free admission to SPK museums (06.01.2026)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation grants free admission to its museums up to and including Thursday for those affected by the power outage The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is offering all visitors affected by the current power outage in Berlin free admission to all museums of the Nation

  9. Launch of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2026 (06.01.2026)

    The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2026 starts on 7 January in the subjects of piano and chamber music with wind instruments The oldest German competition for young musicians in the fields of piano and chamber music with wind instruments will be held from 7 to 11 January 2026. Th

  10. The estate of Leni Riefenstahl - an interim balance of research (30.01.2026)

    Exploitation of a collection under complex conditions - ethical-legal questions and artistic debate The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is cataloguing and researching the extensive estate of Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003). The Art Library with its Museum of Photography, the Ethnological Museum,