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  1. Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection becomes the new director of the Getty Villa in Los Angeles (27.08.2025)

    Prof Dr Verena Lepper, currently curator at the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, is leaving Berlin for California. The 52-year-old Egyptologist and orientalist will head the Getty Villa in Los Angeles in future. The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades is one of the two locations of the J. Paul G

  2. Love is everything - the SPK gives its all and participates with 17 museums in the Long Night of Museums on 30 August - Ackermann: The public can look forward to many attractions (28.08.2025)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is taking part in the 43rd Long Night of Museums with 17 museums, which starts on 30 August under the motto "Love in Berlin". This year's focus will be on the Museum Island, which is celebrating its 200th anniversary. All the buildings on the "island" are op

  3. Here’s to Good Neighbors! (19.06.2017)

    On the way to the Humboldt Forum with new neighbors: even during the relocation process, highlights from the Museum für Asiatische Kunst and the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are on display, making a guest appearance on the Museumsinsel as heralds of the Humboldt Forum. Th

  4. Objects that tell of the famous Silk Road (17.09.2008)

    The academy project "Turfan Research" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Museum of Asian Art - SMB (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) are partners in the EU project 'IDP-CREA The International Dunhuang Project - Cultural Routes of Eurasia Berlin, 17 September 2

  5. Change in the office of Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Director of the Nationalgalerie (31.10.2008)

    The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, and the President of the Foundation, Prof Dr Hermann Parzinger, today bid farewell to Prof Dr Peter-Klaus Schuster as Director General of the National Museums in Berlin an

  6. New Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage published (21.10.2010)

    The 45th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook is, for once, a double volume. It looks back on the years 2008 and 2009, the first two years in office of the new Foundation President Hermann Parzinger. The wealth of outstanding events during this period is reflected in the strength of the

  7. Archaeology competence centre opposite Museum Island Berlin celebrates topping-out ceremony (22.09.2010)

    Today's topping-out ceremony for the new Archaeology Competence Centre in the presence of Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and Jan Mücke, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Building Ministry, marks a further s

  8. Haus Bastian will expand Berlin's Museum Island in future: the donation agreement has been signed (28.09.2017)

    The Bastian family will hand over the gallery building designed by David Chipperfield at Kupfergraben 10 to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation next year. It will be used in future as a centre for cultural education and will bear the name "Haus Bastian der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußi

  9. Together for the science metropolis. Berlin's non-university research institutions join forces (21.02.2020)

    Strengthening Berlin as an international science metropolis is the goal of a joint initiative of the capital's non-university research institutions. They have joined forces to form BR 50 (Berlin Research 50) in order to develop joint strategies for research and dialogue with politics and society. Th

  10. Ludwig Unter den Linden, Karl Friedrich in the church and Claudia at the Kulturforum - the highlights of 2020 were presented at the SPK's annual reception (05.02.2020)

    This year, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is preparing for the reopening of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden and the handover of the keys to the Neue Nationalgalerie. As SPK President Hermann Parzinger said at the traditional annual reception in the James-Simon-Galerie, the Staatsbib