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  1. The Museum der Moderne "berlin modern" at the Kulturforum will be a sustainable building for all (18.04.2023)

    The plans for the Museum der Moderne at the Kulturforum have been significantly revised and further developed since the ground-breaking ceremony in December 2019. In addition to a large-scale photovoltaic system on the roof, the building has also undergone numerous other changes that will make it mu

  2. 200 years of Museum Island Berlin: SPK celebrates a unique place of world culture for five years (25.02.2025)

    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

  3. Colonnades of the Museum Island Berlin completed (29.08.2024)

    Final construction phase to restore the building to its original state completed Berlin. Under the direction of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), the listed colonnades on Berlin's Museum Island have been restored to their original state. The final construction phase, inclu

  4. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Sebastian Schmideler heads the children's and young adult book department (16.08.2024)

    Dr Sebastian Schmideler, currently a research assistant for children's and young adult literature and literary didactics at the University of Leipzig, will become the new head of the children's and young adult book department at the Berlin State Library on 2 September 2024. He succeeds Carola Pohlma

  5. Federal President Steinmeier and Minister of State for Culture Roth open the exhibition "From Odesa to Berlin. European Painting from the 16th to 19th Century" in the Gemäldegalerie (23.01.2025)

    Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth, together with the Ukrainian Minister of Culture Mykola Tochytskyi, are today opening the exhibition "From Odesa to Berlin. European Painting of the 16th to 19th Centuries" in the Picture Gallery of the Prussian

  6. Successful interplay of landscape architecture and art - decision of the interdisciplinary competition for outdoor facilities and art in the building of the plaster moulding workshop of the National Museums in Berlin (23.12.2024)

    A Berlin team from the disciplines of landscape architecture and art will design the outdoor areas of the plaster moulding workshop of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (SMB) following its basic restoration and extension. With their design, the offices 100Landschaftsarchitektur and studiofutura with t

  7. Cultural ambassadors on wheels: SPK and Flix agree mobility partnership for the Museum Island Berlin (19.12.2024)

    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

  8. 200 years of Museum Island Berlin: SPK celebrates a unique place of world culture for five years (18.12.2024)

    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

  9. The Nuba photographs and films in Leni Riefenstahl's estate: scholars from Germany and Sudan conduct joint research - symposium in Berlin (23.10.2024)

    In 2018, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation received the estate of the filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) as a gift. The holdings were divided up within the SPK according to academic expertise: Written material - Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Department of Manuscripts and H

  10. Return of a collection of plaster casts from Berlin to Jena (10.11.2025)

    Historical plaster casts from the University of Jena came into the care of the Collection of Classical Antiquities in 1983. After around forty years, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has returned the collection to its place of origin. The collection of almost 400 plaster casts of ancient sc