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From 2025, Museum Island Berlin will be celebrating its 200th anniversary - starting with the anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone for the Altes Museum on 9 July. The travel company Flix and SPK have joined forces to enable even more people to enjoy culture and publicise the island's an

Gold hat and Nefertiti, Cleopatra and Caspar David Friedrich, Canova and Pergamon. The curved façade of the Bode Museum, the temple of the Alte Nationalgalerie, the resurrected Neues Museum and the idyllic Kolonnadenhof. The Museum Island is one of Berlin's main attractions and one of the world's to

The life-size figure "Le Drame Lyrique", also known as the "Violinist", once adorned the foyer of the Opéra Comique. Until 1932, the work by French sculptor Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900) was displayed in the foyer of the third oldest theatre institution in Paris. After being transferred to the Mus

Restitution of Nazi-looted property to descendants of the politically persecuted writer Eduard Fuchs - Chinese object from the Ethnological Museum handed over The SPK has today restituted a Chinese ridge turret figure from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin t

Human remains that were in the collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin were returned to Australia today, 5 December 2024. Together with the Australian Embassy, the Ethnological Museum organised a memorial service for the ancestors, who are now travelling home. They w

SPK restitutes two works by Max Slevogt to the heirs of Bruno Cassirer and buys back both works. The painting "Portrait of Bruno Cassirer", the purchase of which was made possible by the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, will be exhibited in the Alte Nationalgalerie from 4 March 2025 The SPK has rest

Kick-off weekend at the end of May / Parzinger: Every Berlin school class should visit the "island" at least once The "200 Years of Museum Island Berlin" anniversary, which the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will be organising together with numerous partners over the next five years, is set t

Creating structures for a young field of research - sharing knowledge worldwide. Collaboration, innovation and sustainability are at the centre of the renewed partnership for provenance research on Asian art The National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institut

Her Excellency Yadir Salazar Mejía, Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia, and Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, today signed an agreement on the transfer of ownership of three ritual artefacts from the Kogi. They had been on loan to the SPK in Bogota since October 2024. The foundation had a

Minister of State for Culture Weimer, Saxony's Prime Minister Kretschmer and Senator for Culture Wedl-Wilson honour formative years - speeches by Markschies and Chipperfield The former President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, was bid farewell on Tuesday (27 May) wit