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  1. Free admission for children and young people up to the age of 18 - new admission regulations at the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (05.07.2010)

    From 1 October 2010, children and young people will have free admission to the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Musikinstrumenten-Museum) until the age of 18 - instead of the previous age of 16. This change was decided by the SPK Foundation Council l

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation publishes magazine on the Humboldt Forum (21.05.2015)

    To coincide with the topping-out ceremony for the new Berlin Palace, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is publishing a magazine focussing on the outstanding collections of African, Oceanian and American art and culture that will be on display at the Humboldt Forum from 2019. The 60-page maga

  3. Dr des. Andrea Schlosser receives Ernst Waldschmidt Prize of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation / Award honours outstanding academic achievements in the field of Indology (02.12.2014)

    Dr des. Andrea Schlosser was awarded this year's Ernst Waldschmidt Prize for her dissertation "On the Bodhisattva Path in Gandhāra. Edition of Fragment 4 and 11 from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts". The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation a

  4. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Berlin collectors welcome the decision of the Bundestag Budget Committee on the extension to the Neue Nationalgalerie / Parzinger: A brilliant act with a great impact on the future (13.11.2014)

    The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag decided at its review meeting on 13 November 2014 to make 200 million euros available to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation over the coming years for the construction of a new Museum of Modern Art on Potsdamer Strasse. The Pietzsch, Marx and Marzon

  5. Conference "Cultural property in danger: looted excavations and illegal trade" (11.11.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute and the German Association for Archaeology are organising an international conference in Berlin on 11 and 12 December in cooperation with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Federal Forei

  6. Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage established: Leading companies support the work of the foundation (31.10.2014)

    In future, a new funding body will support the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as a partner: the Prussian Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees. The association of leading German commercial enterprises will provide financial support for SPK projects and assist the Foundation in the realisation o

  7. Ingolf Kern takes over as Head of the Media and Communications Department of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (26.09.2014)

    On 1 October 2014, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will establish a new Media and Communications Department. The 48-year-old journalist Ingolf Kern will take over as head. Kern was previously spokesman for the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation for five years and editor in charge o

  8. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes works of art from the collection of the great Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse (12.02.2015)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted eight works of art to the heirs of Felicia Lachmann-Mosse. The works were part of the extensive art collection that her father, the Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse, had built up since the 1880s. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation had come

  9. Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage 2013 published (09.01.2015)

    The 49th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook, which looks back on 2013, was published at the turn of the year. Numerous articles illustrate the range of topics that concern the foundation. Particularly interesting on the occasion of the current developments surrounding the Kulturforum:

  10. Handing over the keys to the Friedrichshagen storage facility of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (30.06.2014)

    Today the keys were handed over for the first building at the SPK's new storage location, the Friedrichshagen storage magazine. In attendance were Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Günter Winands, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner fo