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  1. Artist Karin Sander pays tribute to Johanna and Eduard Arnhold and the residents of the Tiergarten district (24.06.2026)

    Karin Sander, a conceptual artist based in Berlin, will develop an artistic remembrance project that uses original quotations, interviews, music and sound collages to commemorate the outstanding patron couple Johanna and Eduard Arnhold, as well as other residents of the Tiergarten district whose nam

  2. Karin Sander is developing a commemorative project about Johanna and Eduard Arnhold (24.06.2026)

    Karin Sander, a conceptual artist based in Berlin, will develop an artistic remembrance project that uses original quotations, interviews, music and sound collages to commemorate the patron couple Johanna and Eduard Arnhold, as well as other residents of the Tiergarten district whose names were eras

  3. Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Nationalgalerie mourn the loss of Erich Marx (10.09.2020)

    Great collector passes away at the age of 99 - Parzinger: A man of the century - Eissenhauer and Haak: A major influence on the reconstruction of the Nationalgalerie's collection - Knapstein and Jäger: We lose a great friend of art The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the National Museums i

  4. 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. His family announced this today. Over a period of more than 50 years, Egidio Marzona amassed one of the most extensive collections of 20th-centur

  5. SPK, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Nationalgalerie mourn the loss of Heiner Pietzsch (08.09.2021)

    Collector and patron Heiner Pietzsch has died at the age of 91 - Parzinger: A great friend of the Nationalgalerie and pioneer of the museum for the 20th century Heiner Pietzsch, the well-known Berlin entrepreneur and great patron of the arts, is dead. He died on Tuesday evening in a Berlin clinic at

  6. Statement by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation on the "Open Letter: We demand free access to museum inventories of African artefacts in Germany!" (17.10.2019)

    Anyone who takes an unbiased look at the work of museums in Germany knows that they go to great lengths to disclose their collections and create transparency. The debate about object biographies of African collections is not a new topic for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. On the contrary:

  7. Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz mourns the death of Egidio Marzona (16.03.2026)

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

  8. Friedrich Christian Flick donates 104 works of contemporary art to the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (28.01.2015)

    To mark his 70th birthday, Friedrich Christian Flick has donated 104 works of contemporary art to the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. This is the second donation in just a few years. Flick had already donated 166 works to the museum in 2008. In addition to the d

  9. On yesterday's ARD programme "FAKT" about human remains from the former colony of German East Africa / Parzinger does not rule out returns (23.11.2016)

    Yesterday's programme FAKT (ARD, 21.45 hrs) reported on allegedly new finds of human skulls from the colonial era, including in an alleged in a supposed "secret depot" of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Cultural Heritage Foundation. In 2014 and 2015, the SPK issued several press releases

  10. Exemplary partnership between SPK and Museums Association of Namibia enters next phase (23.05.2022)

    Objects travelling from Berlin to Namibia - long-term, collaborative research process with cultural heritage communities, artists and scientists 23 objects from the collection of the Ethnologisches Museum der Staatli-chen Museen zu Berlin will travel to Namibia on 27 May 2022 as part of the partners