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  1. Berlin's "Museum of East Asian Art" and "Museum of Indian Art" to be united in future to form a "Museum of Asian Art" (05.12.2006)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation yesterday approved the merger of the Museums of East Asian Art and Indian Art. In future, they will be run as departments of the new "Museum of Asian Art". Their unification will strengthen the importance of both collections through

  2. Relaunch of the website of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (28.08.2013)

    The completely redesigned and updated website of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de) went online today. The launch marks an important step towards improving the Foundation's public image. The SPK's tasks and activities are now more tangible than ever before:

  3. Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage 2014 published (26.01.2016)

    The 50th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook has just been published, looking back on the year 2014. Internal and external authors address topics that concern the Foundation in numerous articles. In 2014, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie underwent a multi-year refurbishm

  4. German Bundestag passes new law on the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (31.01.2025)

    Parzinger: This is the keystone of our reform / New law to come into force on 1 December 2025 On Friday night (31 January), the German Bundestag passed a new law for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. SPK President Hermann Parzinger commented: "The new SPK Act is a decisive step towards guid

  5. Board of the SPK on dealing with the Benin bronzes (24.03.2021)

    At its meeting on March 24, 2021, the Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) considered, among other matters, the treatment of objects with colonial contexts in the collections. This included the issue of the Benin bronzes. The Foundation Board welcom

  6. Foundation Board clears the way for returns to Namibia and Tanzania (27.06.2022)

    23 objects from the Ethnological Museum to remain permanently in Namibia - agreement on repatriation to Tanzania also possible Namibia 23 objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin can remain in Namibia permanently. The Board of Trustees of the Prussian

  7. museum4punkt0: The joint project led by the SPK is being extended (21.12.2020)

    The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media is continuing to fund museum4punkt0 with ten million euros in 2021. Together with ten new partners, cultural institutions across Germany are developing and testing digital offerings for new ways of learning, experiencing and participating

  8. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presents its annual programme and plans for the future (28.04.2022)

    Annual reception 2022 in the James-Simon-Galerie - Parzinger: We have new strategic goals and are facing up to the great challenges of our time The institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provide an insight into their annual programme and their plans for the future. As President He

  9. Newly published: Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage reports on the work of the Foundation and looks to the future (23.12.2008)

    The 44th volume of the yearbook reports on outstanding events and developments in 2007, including the ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation's founding, with a speech by Federal President Horst Köhler. This volume also contains the speeches on the occasion of the change in the o

  10. 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