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  1. Topping-out ceremony for the extension and remodelling of the Berggruen Museum of the Berlin National Gallery (20.09.2011)

    Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is celebrating the topping-out ceremony for the extension and remodelling of the Berggruen Museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In summer 2012, this home of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin will be reopened with around one thousand s

  2. New image brochure of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation published (30.01.2019)

    Secrets, conversations and walks through the SPK cosmos - Celebrities such as Bibiana Beglau, Tim Raue and Robin Ticciati guide us through their favourite pieces - Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz supports the publication designed by BUREAU Mario Lombardo The new image brochure "Once around the w

  3. Secret State Archives and State Library once again receive funding to preserve written cultural assets (18.09.2020)

    Special funds from the Coordination Centre for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage (KEK) are once again being used to support projects at the SPK: The Geheime Staatsarchiv PK will restore and digitise the estate of the architect Franz Schwechten. The Berlin State Library is continuing the

  4. Restoration Day at the SPK on 19 October 2025 (30.09.2025)

    The European Restoration Day will take place for the eighth time on 19 October 2025. The SPK institutions will also be offering exclusive insights into studios and exhibitions Around 130 conservators work at the SPK to preserve the most valuable cultural assets - mostly behind the scenes. On Restora

  5. A work by Menzel believed lost has returned to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (15.04.2014)

    A few days ago, the gouache "Ash Wednesday Morning" by Adolph von Menzel was returned to Berlin. The work had been considered lost since the Second World War. A few years ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation became aware of its whereabouts in the Lithuanian Art Museum in Vilnius. In the co

  6. 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

  7. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation mourns the death of Wolf-Dieter Dube (10.09.2015)

    Long-standing Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin passes away at the age of 81 - Parzinger: architect of the museum landscape in reunified Berlin Wolf-Dieter Dube, the long-serving Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, has died. He died in Berlin on Wednesday at the age

  8. Contract Signed With Herzog & de Meuron (05.02.2018)

    Now it is all signed and sealed: the Swiss architectural practice will see its design for the Museum des 20. Jahrhundert built on the Kulturforum. The entry by Herzog & de Meuron won the design competition for the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century) at the Kulturforum. The signi

  9. Memorial service for Erich Marx (09.09.2021)

    One year ago, the collector Erich Marx died at the age of 99. Around 200 invited guests honoured the great collector and patron today at a memorial service at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, the museum whose creation and success Erich Marx had significantly supported with the

  10. Cultural contacts: "Notturno" chamber concert at the Museum of European Cultures (17.04.2015)

    The Anamyktos Quartet will perform the last "Notturno" chamber concert of the current season on 24 April at the Museum of European Cultures of the National Museums in Dahlem. With a programme of works by Russian composers, the musicians of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will enter into a d