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  1. Recovery of four miniatures from the Loewe Collection for the Alte Nationalgalerie (10.10.2019)

    The SPK was recently able to recover four works of art for the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin that had been thought lost. They belong to a collection of 219 miniatures that Berlin city councillor Loewe had bequeathed to the museum in 1897. The four works have now turned up on the

  2. Parzinger: Now the Kulturforum can become the Museum Island of Modernism (14.11.2019)

    Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approves cost plan for the Nationalgalerie's Museum of the 20th Century The cost plan for the Museum of the 20th Century at the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin was approved today at the German Bundestag's budget committee meeting to finalis

  3. Electronic music from the roof of the Bode Museum - Parzinger: "We are in solidarity with the Berlin club scene (03.07.2020)

    "SPOT // berlin art sessions": One-hour DJ set - top location of the National Museums in Berlin - streamed film The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its National Museums in Berlin are launching the "SPOT // berlin art sessions" project together with GERMAN ARTS. Electronic club music meets

  4. The scientific potential of anthropological collections - BGAEU conference from 27 to 28 March 2025 at PETRI (21.03.2025)

    Europe's colonial heritage plays a major role in current social discourse. The Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory (BGAEU), founded on the initiative of Rudolf Virchow in 1869, curates a historical teaching collection of human skulls and skeletons, which was mainly compiled by

  5. Museum Island gets the "Reinhold Würth Centre for Cultural Education and Mediation in the Bastian House" in 2017 - Grütters and Parzinger thank Reinhold Würth and the Heiner Bastian family for their generous commitment (30.09.2016)

    The "Haus Bastian" on Kupfergraben, built by David Chipperfield, will become the "Reinhold Würth Centre for Cultural Education and Mediation in Haus Bastian" of the National Museums in Berlin. A generous donation from entrepreneur and collector Reinhold Würth and an equally generous offer from the B

  6. Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin reports: Visitor numbers to museums in Germany remain at a high level in the pre-corona year 2019 (18.01.2021)

    111.6 million visits to German museums in 2019 - trend towards special exhibitions unbroken Special exhibition trend unbroken - Special topic of the 2019 overall statistical survey: Collection holdings and handling collections The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 111,633,603 v

  7. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns three Meissen porcelain groups (06.08.2008)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned three Meissen porcelain groups from the Arnhold family's former collection to their legal successor, the company S.Bleichröder OHG i.L.. The pieces, which were confiscated due to persecution, were exhibited in the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the

  8. The Humboldt Forum in the palace: Coming to the world differently. A workshop view (10.06.2009)

    Exhibition at the Altes Museum, Museum Island Berlin, from 9 July 2009 to 17 January 2010 Press conference: Wed 8 July 2009, 11 a.m. Opening: Wed 8 July 2009, evening For the first time, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Z

  9. Change in the office of Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (20.12.2010)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, today unanimously elected Prof Dr Günther Schauerte as the new Vice-President of the SPK. Mr Schauerte is currently Deputy Director General of the National Museums in Berlin -

  10. Two works from the Kupferstichkabinett restituted (08.10.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today restituted two drawings from the holdings of the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The provenance of the sheets had been examined as part of a systematic provenance research project. They turned out to have formerly belonged t