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The Museum Berggruen hits the road: travelling exhibition of major masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, and Klee to visit Japan, China, and Paris. Museum to close on September 5, 2022 for complete renovation, with reopening scheduled for 2025. Museum Berggruen is taking the show to the road wi

Several German museums have returned a total of five works of art that originally belonged to the collection of Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann. On July 4, five works of art from several German museums were transferred to the heirs of Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann at the Städtische Galerie (Municipal Ga

“How will we build the future?” asks the recently published annual report of the SPK, which focuses on the internal changes underway at the Foundation and the people behind them. The 2021 Annual Report of the SPK has now been published. In his foreword, SPK President Hermann Parzinger recalls a “yea

Ein Sanchi-Tor aus rotem Röttbacher Mainsandstein Detail des in Bamberg gefertigten Tors. Foto: SPK / Elena Then „Das ist schon was Besonderes!“, sagt Nina Graser an diesem trüben, frühherbstlich-frischen Tag auf dem Gelände des Bamberger Natursteinwerk Hermann Graser im fränkischen Bamberg. Hier wi

Der Vergessenheit entrissen Gruppenfoto der deutschen und ruandischen Wissenschaftler*innen. Foto: National Museums of Rwanda Marius Kowalak, Ethnologe am Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, war in den vergangenen Jahren mit einem Team Berliner Wissenschaftler*innen immer wieder in Ruanda. Er führte

Wie klingt Soft-Brutalismus? Softbrutalistische Architektur von Rolf Gutbrod: Das Treppenhaus des Kunstgewerbemuseums © SPK/Benne Ochs Kommenden Sonntag (4. September) werden die Gärten des Kulturforums entdeckt – natürlich auch im Kunstgewerbemuseum, wo es zwei Performances geben wird. Was hat es d

The "Benin bronzes" officially belong to Nigeria again. About a third of the transferred objects will remain on loan in Berlin and will be exhibited in the Humboldt Forum. On 25 august 2022, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director Ge

Nineteen bronze axes, a bronze sword, and fifteen stone axes have found their way back to the collection of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte. Some of these artifacts were probably part of the important Bennewitz Hoard. After the widow of Berlin-based painter Peter Grämer returned objects to th

Foundation Board selects Carolin Schreiber to head the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Starting in the fall of 2022, Carolin Schreiber will head up the newly established Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library). The

Foundation Board approves lease, but purchase of the property remains long-term goal The German federal government and the real estate company CA Immo Deutschland GmbH have taken the first step toward securing Hamburger Bahnhof’s continued future as a center of arts and culture. They have agreed tha