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  1. Acquisitions

    Acquisitions New items enter the Foundation's collections in various ways. Besides federal and state government funding, assistance from private collectors, public and private charitable foundations, associations of friends, and other entities is essential. Unlike the museums, the libraries make a p

  2. New COVID-19 protective measures: Museums close from 2 November (30.10.2020)

    Parzinger on the corona crisis: Museums will close to the public from Monday (2 November) until the end of the month - archives and libraries will remain open under certain conditions The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, explains the corona crisis: "The numb

  3. Humboldt Lab Tanzania - Shared object histories (03.07.2018)

    The "Humboldt Lab Tanzania" project and the closely related provenance research project "Tanzania-Germany: Shared Object Histories?" have been running at the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin since 2016. The museum worked together with actors from Tanzania on object histories of

  4. President Mattarella of Italy visits the Museumsinsel (13.10.2021)

    Last stop of the state visit to Germany took in the Pergamon Museum and the Neues Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Mattarella delighted Yesterday afternoon the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, visited the Pergamon Museum and the Neues Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Natio

  5. Restitution to Alaska Natives (16.05.2018)

    Ethnological Museum returns grave goods to indigenous peoples from Southwestern Alaska and plans further co-operation with Chugach Alaska Corporation. On May 16, Hermann Parzinger, president of Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural heritage Foundation), handed over nine objects f

  6. Art in Berlin vaccination centres (04.06.2021)

    Since the beginning of June, large posters of works of art from the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage have been hanging in the six Berlin vaccination centres. The motifs originate from the campaign to open up the museums and were specially adapted for the centres. Dilek Kalayci

  7. Campaign Juxtaposes Old and New: "Finally open again for ..." Celebrates Museum Reopening (08.06.2021)

    The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Musikinstrumenten-Museum are finally open to the public again. They are wooing visitors with 21 different advertisements around the city and on social media. The hygienic measures imposed in response to the coronavirus pandemic are gradually being lifted, and

  8. The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island - a jewel of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (20.04.2009)

    The New Museum. On 16 October 2009, the Neues Museum will reopen after 70 years. The building, which was severely damaged in the Second World War and preserved as a ruin, has been restored over the last ten years according to plans by David Chipperfield and was handed over to the Prussian Cultural H

  9. Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and partners present a new model of international co-curation and collaboration (01.12.2023)

    For the first time, the Indian public can experience the great artistic achievements of the ancient Mediterranean alongside the country's own cultural treasures. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) - "a museum of ideas" in Mumbai - is presenting ancient sculptures to mark 75 y

  10. Gift from the Bode descendants for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (18.10.2006)

    One day after the grand opening of the Bode Museum, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin received a special gift today: Wilhelm von Bode's great-grandchildren from Germany and Switzerland presented General Director Peter-Klaus Schuster with a small majolica jug from the early Renaissance at the Bode Muse