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  1. ZDF and 3sat as partners for culture (23.11.2023)

    SPK and ZDF extend media partnership until the end of 2024 The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) is continuing its successful media partnership with ZDF. ZDF Programme Director Nadine Bilke and SPK President Hermann Parzinger today signed the extension of the cooperation until the end of 2

  2. Cameroonian Commission for Restitution visits Ethnological Museum (18.10.2023)

    Three members of the recently established Cameroon Restitution Commission (Comité interministériel chargé du rapatriement des biens culturels illégalement exportés à l'étranger au Ministère fédéral des Affaires étrangères) visited the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin on 16 and 1

  3. Kupferstichkabinett and the "Degenerate Art" campaign of 1937: New publication commemorates Willy Kurth's rescue operation (10.10.2023)

    The curator saved hundreds of masterpieces by Kirchner, Heckel, Picasso and Beckmann from the Nazi iconoclasm - and kept quiet about it for the rest of his life - now he is being remembered for the first time and his daring rescue operation is being comprehensively reconstructed Summer 1937: The Nat

  4. Remembrance of the Israeli hostages: "The Yellow Piano" remains in the James Simon Gallery until 28 January (12.01.2024)

    SPK President Parzinger: Cultural institutions must do more to combat the rise of anti-Semitism - Invitation to the piano in memory of the hostages For 100 days, around 110 Israeli men, women and children have been held captive by the terrorist organisation Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Their situation a

  5. Museums and exhibition centres on course for consolidation: visitors are back (19.12.2023)

    Institute for Museum Research publishes visitor figures for museums and exhibition centres in Germany in 2022: 81.4 million visits - around twice as many as in the previous year The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 81,372,077 visits in 2022. This is around twice as many as in

  6. From 15 January 2024: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation adjusts admission prices for museums (13.12.2023)

    SPK President Parzinger: We have to react to the increased costs - museum visits should nevertheless remain affordable in international comparison - free admission for visitors aged 18 and under - Museum Sunday to remain The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will make moderate adjustments to adm

  7. 23 objects restituted by the SPK form the centrepiece of an exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Namibia (11.04.2024)

    Exhibition as the result of a long-term, collaborative research process with cultural heritage communities, artists and academics - retransfer officially signed On 11 April 2024, a large-scale exhibition will open at the National Art Gallery of Namibia in Windhoek, focusing on 23 objects that were f

  8. Priorities of the SPK in 2024 (10.04.2024)

    Annual reception at the James-Simon-Galerie - Parzinger: Outstanding visitor balance for 2023 - Attractive exhibition programme this year - Expansion of international collaborations - Reform on the home straight Over 200 guests from politics, culture, business, science and society attended the annua

  9. 6th Day of Provenance Research on 10 April 2024 at the National Museums in Berlin (27.03.2024)

    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

  10. First exhibition of the bust of Nefertiti 100 years ago (27.03.2024)

    On 1 April 1924, the colourful bust of Queen Nefertiti was presented to a wider public for the first time in a museum setting, in a newly designed section of the permanent exhibition of the Egyptian Collection in the Neues Museum. The bust was found in Tell-el-Amarna in 1912 as part of a scientific