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The new annual report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has been published. It looks back on the important events of 2022 - such as the securing of the Rieckhallen, the discovery of a Rembrandt, restitutions such as the Benin bronzes, the opening of the museums in the Humboldt Forum and t

Parzinger: We want to react more flexibly to visitor flows in future The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will change the opening hours of the National Museums in Berlin and the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research from 16 April 2024. SPK President Hermann Parzing

Former Vice President dies at the age of 89 - Parzinger: Pioneering and formative figure, especially in times of reunification The former Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Peter Hofmann, is dead. He died in Berlin at the end of August at the age of 89. Hofmann served the S

Bohemians and ambassadors, Germania megalomania, modernist architectural icons: the Kulturforum as a utopia is the subject of joint exhibitions and events by the SPK, Stiftung St. Matthäus, and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Berlin's Kulturforum is a built utopia. But while it does bring together some

16.02.2017 We’ve got to pull it off Article 1990–1999–2017: Dagmar Neuland-Kitzerow from the Museum of European Cultures offers insights into and a glimpse of a museum in flux. You can imagine all the collection relocations following reunification as a giant jigsaw puzzle: during the GDR era, the Mu

Prof. Dr Stephan Waetzoldt died on 25 May 2008 at the age of 88. He was General Director of the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz from 1965 to 1983. With foresight and skill, he turned the museums in West Berlin, scarred by the division of the city and its collections, back into a cornersto

The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger, the Director General Michael Eissenhauer and the 15 museum directors of the SMB, in particular the collection directors concerned, Udo Kittelmann and Bernd Lindemann, have decided on the further course of action regarding

Long-time President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation passes away at the age of 87 - Parzinger: He was the President of Unity The long-standing President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Werner Knopp, passed away on 4 January 2019 at the age of 87. Born in Braunschweig, he ha

Topping-out ceremony on 17 October 2025 with Minister of State for Culture Weimer - Visitor days in the shell on 18 and 19 October 2025 berlin modern , a new building for 20th century art, is being constructed at the Kulturforum according to plans by renowned architects Herzog & de Meuron. Since the

The former piazzetta at the entrance to the museums at the Kulturforum was today named after Johanna and Eduard Arnhold. This commemorates the Jewish couple who patronised art, culture and science during the imperial era and the Weimar Republic. With the naming of the square, the museums at the Kult