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From tomorrow, the South Sea Department of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin (Museen Dahlem) will have to be closed for an estimated two months due to extremely urgent construction work. The reason for this is the recent discovery of structural damage to the concrete pillars,

The International Day of Provenance Research will take place for the sixth time on 10 April 2024. This year, the SPK institutions will once again provide insights into the work of their provenance researchers The National Museums in Berlin are offering guided tours on provenance research and the his

At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously appointed Dr Sabine Thümmler as the future Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin. She will succeed Dr Angela Schönberger, who is retiring at the end of February

The art historian Philipp Demandt will take over as director of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz on 2 January 2012. Philipp Demandt, born in 1971, studied art history, classical archaeology and journalism and completed his doctorate in 2001 at th

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today received back two major gouache paintings by the Berlin artist Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905), which were thought to have been lost for over sixty years. The works were identified following a tip-off from Christie's auction house, where they were to

Fair and equitable solution: SPK restitutes five works to the heirs of the owners of the Matthiesen Gallery - one work remains in the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin In 1935, Dresdner Bank sold around 4,400 works of art to the Prussian state, which handed them over to the museums. Si

Since the reunification of the Berlin collections under the umbrella of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, recovered relocation documents have been analysed. This has made it possible to systematically record and document the losses from the period of the Second World War and the occupation

A 19th-century sculpture that had been thought lost since the end of the war has been found on the grounds of the American Academy in Berlin-Wannsee. It is owned by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and is part of the collection of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin. In 2

State Library's acquisition budget increases - Pergamon Museum construction schedule secured - Plaster moulding shop to be expanded - Museum 4.0 launched At the end of last week, the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approved additional funding for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. T

Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel will officially open the new James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin's Museum Island on 12 July. An action day of the National Museums in Berlin is then planned for 13 July. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says: "With her commitment t