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  1. Toi moko from the Ethnological Museum return to New Zealand (12.10.2020)

    A ceremony was held today at the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to prepare two mummified and tattooed Māori heads (Toi moko) for their repatriation to New Zealand. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), to which the Ethnological Museum belongs, had decided to return

  2. British heir to the throne visits Berlin's Museum Island (30.04.2009)

    Today, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall are visiting the Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island, which, following its structural completion, is now being furnished and prepared for its opening on 16 October 2009. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundatio

  3. SPK and ZDF/3sat extend media partnership (22.06.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) is continuing its successful media partnership with ZDF, which began 15 years ago. On Wednesday evening, 22 June 2016, ZDF Director General Thomas Bellut and SPK President Hermann Parzinger signed the extension of the partnership until 2020. As part of

  4. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over manuscripts to the German Historical Museum (14.03.2018)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has handed over nine manuscripts to the German Historical Museum Foundation (DHM) that were in the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage. The military-historical works belonged to the armoury library until the armoury was dissolved and were trans

  5. Altes Museum and Bode Museum reopen on Tuesdays from 3 June (14.05.2025)

    The Altes Museum and the Bode-Museum will reopen on Tuesdays from 3 June 2025. This extension of services will be accompanied by an adjustment to the admission price in both museums: In future, the house ticket will cost 14 euros instead of 12 euros in each case, as in the other houses on Museum Isl

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities plan closer professional cooperation (28.02.2013)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Egyptian Ministry of State for Antiquities as well as the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities have decided to co-operate more closely in future. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and Mohamed Ibrahim Ali, M

  7. Umbrella organisation for archaeology founded (11.10.2011)

    German archaeologists found an umbrella organisation and create a mouthpiece for politicians and the public. The founding meeting of the "German Association for Archaeology" (DVA) took place in Bremen on 4 October 2011 as part of the 7th German Archaeology Congress. Following failed attempts to unit

  8. New National Gallery (14.12.2020)

    Restoration of an architectural icon: the covers have come off Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie - keys handed over on 29 April and reopening in August 2021 The completely renovated upper hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie with its crystalline shape is once again visible. Hermann Parzinger, Pre

  9. A Crown for the Centerpiece of the Museumsinsel (03.05.2019)

    Milestone in the complete renovation and extension of Pergamonmuseum: topping out ceremony for building phase A On May 3, 2019, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK) and the Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (Federal Office for Building and Regional

  10. Arbeitsgruppe Kultur of the Petersburger Dialog

    Arbeitsgruppe Kultur of the Petersburger Dialog The Arbeitsgruppe Kultur (Working Group on Culture, AG Kultur) of the Petersburger Dialog (Petersburg Dialogue) supports the development of relationships between Russian and Germany in the cultural sphere. The president of the Stiftung Preussischer Kul