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  1. German museums and exhibition centres remain extremely popular - almost 116 million visits in 2013 (18.12.2014)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 110,425,002 visits in 2013. This is the second-highest number of visits since the first complete survey began in 1981. Only in the previous year 2012 was the figure slightly higher (2.1 per cent). The 8,942 special exhibitions organised by German museums contri

  2. Bernhard Weisser appointed new director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin (05.12.2014)

    Prof. Dr Bernhard Weisser will become Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage on 1 June 2015. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foundation Board today. Weisser has been acting Director of the Coin Cabinet since the end of Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge

  3. The future of Berlin's Kulturforum begins: SPK launches ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century (03.09.2015)

    New museum complex will house the important holdings of the Nationalgalerie - ideas competition to deliver architectural concept and submit proposals for urban planning organisation The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is launching one of its most important new building projects. Over the next

  4. ATTENTION: NEW LOCATION FOR PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE MUSEUM OF THE 20TH CENTURY ON 3 SEPTEMBER 2015 (02.09.2015)

    The press conference on the launch of the ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century on 3 September 2015 at 10 a.m. will take place NOT in the foyer of the Kulturforum but in the Curt-Sachs-Saal of the State Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage Tiergartenstraße 1 entranc

  5. Hermann Parzinger honours Hermann Simon: A formative museum man goes into retirement (27.08.2015)

    Director of the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation - Centrum Judaicum hands over his well-ordered house to his successor after almost thirty years - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presents him with a season ticket for the Berlin museums The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over two paintings from the former armoury collection to the German Historical Museum (13.08.2015)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over two paintings from the former armoury collection to the German Historical Museum The German Historical Museum has received two paintings from the collections of the Zeughaus back from the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer

  7. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and National Museums in Berlin with welcome programme for refugees (01.10.2015)

    Kuratorium Preussischer Kulturbesitz supports guided tour and workshop programme for children, families and adults. The National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation invite refugees in Berlin to familiarise themselves with selected museums and offer free guided tours and wo

  8. Visitor numbers to German museums and exhibition centres rose again in 2014 (16.12.2015)

    German museums and exhibition centres recorded a total of almost 118 million visits in 2014, almost 3 million more than in the previous year. These figures were published by the Institute for Museum Research at the National Museums in Berlin and the German Museums Association. They have been conduct

  9. Press release and invitation: 10 years of German-Russian museum dialogue - ceremony and colloquium on 16 and 17 November in Berlin (06.11.2015)

    10 years of the German-Russian Museum Dialogue (DRMD): around two hundred directors and curators of Russian and German museums affected by war-related losses will meet in Berlin on 16 and 17 November to deepen their long-standing cooperation and discuss new projects. We cordially invite you to the f

  10. Dahlem and the Humboldt Forum: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and National Museums in Berlin publish the magazine "Sammlungswelten" (Worlds of Collections) (16.12.2016)

    Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz supports the magazine, which will be included in the next few days in the magazines "Cicero" and "Monopol" and in January also in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its National Museums in Berlin are publishing a magaz