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Dr Sibylle Hoiman will be the new Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts at the National Museums in Berlin. This was decided by the SPK Foundation Board at its meeting on 5 December 2022. The art historian, who currently heads the Architectural Art Archive at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, su

Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments on the purchase of the Hamburg railway station and the associated Rieckhallen by the Federal Government and the State of Berlin: "What news: a great moment in cultural policy! It's great that the federal government a

Budget Committee approves 9.9 million euros - Roth and Parzinger welcome decision Yesterday, the Bundestag's Budget Committee released 9.9 million euros to make the Museum of the 20th Century, which is currently being built at the Kulturforum, more sustainable. The SPK is now intensively involved in

SPK joins sustainability action network and signs sustainability declaration for the cultural sector - Parzinger: Making sustainability the basis of our actions As of today, the SPK is a partner of the Action Network Sustainability in Culture and Media (ANKM). The network, which is funded by the Fed

Basic refurbishment continues in the south wing - museums remain open despite closure Berlin. The Pergamon Museum on Museum Island Berlin will be completely closed to visitors from 23 October 2023. This step is necessary so that the basic refurbishment as part of the "Museum Island Masterplan" can c

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently restituted six books from the holdings of the Berlin State Library to the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria. The volumes come from the Jewish Community's former Cossmann Werner Library, which once comprised more than 10,000 volumes. As pa

1st prize in the planning competition goes to the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) The competition organised by the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) as the project sponsor and client for the basic renov

Overall statistical survey by the Institute for Museum Research shows Visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in Germany remained at around a third of the pre-pandemic level in the second year of coronavirus in 2021 The results of the Institute for Museum Research's overall statistical sur

Ten Benin objects from the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage will be physically restituted to Nigeria in a few days. They are among the 514 Benin objects for which the SPK already transferred ownership to Nigeria in the summer. On 25 August 2022, Herm

The series supported by the Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz comes to an end this Thursday with a final event - the opening of the building at the Kulturforum remains a central theme After four years, the "Design Lab" discussion and lecture series at the Kunstgewerbemuseum ends this Thursday with