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The SPK, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Nationalgalerie mourn the loss of the great collector, who died yesterday at the age of 99 The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) mourn the loss o

A section of wooden ceiling has now been mounted in the Domed Hall, where objects from the Silk Road region will be shown, part of the outstanding collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Chief restorer Toralf Gabsch explains the background. What is special a

In the art intervention The Other Nefertiti, two artists have published a 3D model of the bust of Nefertiti online – because, they say, the bust and its data are not accessible. How true is that claim? Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al-Badri say on their website that they made the scan in the Neues Mus

Sustainable Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Countries of Origin The Foundation works to sustainably protect cultural assets in countries of origin as well. It runs various projects for capacity building: providing training for local experts so they are better able to undertake it themselves.

Conducting provenance research on ethnological collections is often more difficult than research on Nazi-confiscated art, the president of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Hermann Parzinger, said in an interview with Maria Ossowski of Deutschlandfunk. But, he pointed out, the Humboldt-Forum w

SPK Magazine 1/2016: Heimat? What is Heimat? Meaning more than just “home,” it’s a hot topic in Germany right now. In the new issue, SPK Magazine joins in the debate on the future of society. Issue No. 9 (2016), cover feature: Heimat? © SPK / Ina Niehoff, Design: StudioKrimm All Its Aspects What sho

A project to establish the origins of East African human remains starts in October 2017 at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (MVF) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Bernhard Heeb, curator of the MVF and manager of the project, explains why the museum has a skull collection and how it is being

Exactly ten years ago, on 12 August 2005, the bust of Nefertiti returned to the Museumsinsel (Museum Island) after decades spent in several other places in Berlin and the rest of Germany. Today the likeness of the pharaoh’s “Great Royal Wife” attracts thousands of visitors to the Neues Museum each y

Parzinger: Iran still not issuing export permit for works of art – SPK committed to cultural dialogue The exhibition “The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin” planned for the Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will not be able to take place as scheduled. As t

Elaborately packaged and lifted by crane out through the window – with skillful handling and under the watchful eye of the scientists, a South Seas boat travels from the Martin-Gropius-Bau back to the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) in Dahlem. For three months, numerous objects from the