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  1. Creating opportunities together (13.05.2026)

    Much more than mindless gaming: as collectables, subjects of academic research and a medium for imparting knowledge, computer games have long been a focus of cultural heritage and research institutions. There’s plenty going on within the SPK too: the latest highlight was a meet-up with female game d

  2. 1500 masterpieces for the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art (10.06.2009)

    Today, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is signing a contract at the Pergamonmuseum for an extensive permanent loan of the de Unger Collection. The collector Edmund de Unger is represented by his lawyer and his son Richard de Unger. Edmund de Unger's collect

  3. What Adams’ card index tells us (26.03.2026)

    Did autographs from the collection of David Salomon, an antiquarian murdered in Auschwitz in 1943, enter the Adam Collection lawfully? A provenance research project is investigating whether there is any Nazi-looted property in the Gedächtnis Preußen collection

  4. What Adams’ card index tells us (26.03.2026)

    Did autographs from the collection of David Salomon, an antiquarian murdered in Auschwitz in 1943, enter the Adam Collection lawfully? A provenance research project is investigating whether there is any Nazi-looted property in the Gedächtnis Preußen collection

  5. We’re here now too

    10.02.2017 We’re here now too Article Evelyn Klengel recounts how she made her mark as director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East. In the GDR, women were always supported; I never felt disadvantaged in that respect. On the contrary, I was able to gain qualifications and complete a degree, which

  6. The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbeitz and its museums mourn the loss of Egidio Marzona (16.03.2026)

    On 15 March 2026, the Italian art collector and patron Egidio Marzona (born 1944 in Bielefeld) passed away in Berlin surrounded by his family and friends. This was announced by his family today. Egidio Marzona amassed one of the most extensive collections of 20th century art over more than 50 years,

  7. Tina Brüderlin takes over the management of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin (13.10.2021)

    The Ethnological Museum with its two locations in the Humboldt Forum and in Dahlem will have a new director from mid-January The current Director of the Ethnological Collection of the Museum Natur und Mensch in Freiburg, Tina Brüderlin, will in future head the Ethnological Museum of the National Mus

  8. The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island reopens (15.10.2009)

    With a ceremony attended by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel, Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit and Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, the Neues Museum reopens its doors tomorrow for the first time in seventy years. From 17 October, the public is invited to visit the building, which was a war

  9. Two boxes from Leipzig - objects lost since the Second World War return to Berlin (06.02.2012)

    Forty-four objects of late antique Byzantine everyday culture were recently identified in Leipzig as belonging to the Berlin Museum of Byzantine Art and are now returning to the Bode Museum. The pieces had been transported to the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War and were mistakenly

  10. New Head of the Music Department of the Berlin State Library (01.02.2008)

    From 1 April 2008, Dr Martina Rebmann will take over the management of the music department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, one of the most important collections of its kind in the world. This decision was taken by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage