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  1. Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin mourn the loss of fashion designer Uli Richter (12.07.2021)

    The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) mourn the loss of the great fashion designer Uli Richter, who died yesterday at the age of 94. SPK President Hermann Parzinger praised his qualities: "Uli R

  2. Benin Bronzes: talks with the Nigerian delegation in Berlin (08.07.2021)

    On July 7, the guests toured the Humboldt Forum and on the next day they visited the storage facility in Dahlem containing objects from Benin. On a visit to Berlin, the Nigerian partners and Sir David Adjaye, the architect of the Edo State Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) being built in Benin Cit

  3. Nine-and-a-half weeks – and then... (20.07.2021)

    Today, the first exhibitions in the Humboldt Forum open to the public. From September 22, visitors can admire ethnological collections and Asian art occupying a floor area of 17,000 square meters Anticipation is growing: nine and a half weeks after the first exhibitions open in the Humboldt Forum co

  4. SPK Magazine issue on the Kulturforum (30.06.2021)

    The "Temple and Barn" issue explores the ensemble of buildings for art, literature, music, and science and asks what they have to offer. Berlin's cultural forum in the Tiergarten district, near Potsdamer Platz, is going to become livelier and acquire new qualities. That's the unanimous wish of the i

  5. SPK invites minister presidents to the newly refurbished Neue Nationalgalerie (25.06.2021)

    SPK President Hermann Parzinger took the visit as an opportunity to thank the federal states for their commitment to the work of the Foundation. At the invitation of Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller and President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundatio

  6. Will Priam's Treasure Soon Be Shown on Museum Island? (28.06.2021)

    Future relations with Russia — are politics and culture going separate ways? That was the subject of a discussion with Michael Kretschmer, Marion Ackermann and Hermann Parzinger on June 10, 2021. Text The evening panel discussion was hosted by SPK President Hermann Parzinger and State Secretary Conr

  7. Vaccination with art (04.06.2021)

    Works of art in Berlin's vaccination centers: large posters featuring objects from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin create a positive atmosphere. Since the beginning of June, large posters with art works from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz (National Museums in Berlin – Pr

  8. SPK Magazine 1/2021: Temple and Barn

    SPK Magazine 1/2021: Temple and Barn The Kulturforum: a place where architecture, art, music, science, and literature come together. The new issue takes you on a tour of this unique cultural landscape, past the newly renovated Neue Nationalgalerie and the busy building site where the Museum des 20.

  9. Planting event with artist Ben Wagin (19.04.2021)

    The Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Berlin-based performance artist Ben Wagin commemorate an art intervention from 1976 with the planting of three trees in the outdoor space of the Neue Nationalgalerie. In 1976, performance artist Ben Wagin planted two black pines at the Neue

  10. SPK reform commission: more individual responsibility for the institutions (11.03.2021)

    At its meeting yesterday, the reform commission of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) dealt in detail with the situations at three of its institutions. The commission's deliberations on the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB – Berlin State Library), the Ibero