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  1. Here I realize what it means to be human (09.04.2019)

    The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung and the Musikinstrumenten-Museum are breaking new ground in outreach – Conny Restle and Thomas Ertelt talk to us about sonorous objects, Beethoven the freelancer, and the parking lot. The digital museum guide at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum (Museum of Music

  2. The "Nefertiti Hack" – Is It a Hoax? (09.03.2016)

    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

  3. Lost Work by Eduard Gaertner Returns to Kupferstichkabinett (24.03.2022)

    Work by Eduard Gaertner back in the Kupferstichkabinett: Believed lost in wartime, but recognized at auction; donated to the museum by its prospective seller. Eduard Gaertner’s Der Leipziger Platz in Berlin (1862) has recently been returned to the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings).

  4. Provenance Research Day at the SPK (07.04.2020)

    The second International Day of Provenance Research will take place on 8 April 2020. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin have prepared numerous online contributions to provide an insight into the work of provenance researchers. Unfortunately, the planned events have ha

  5. Parzinger: The SPK has not authorised any corona funds (26.01.2024)

    At no time has the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation granted funds from the "NEUSTART KULTUR" coronavirus programme to itself or its institutions. "The coronavirus pandemic has also hit the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hard. We were and are therefore grateful that the then Minister of S

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns historical board game to the Dresden State Art Collections (05.12.2015)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today handed over a historical Tric-Trac game to the Dresden State Art Collections. The piece was one of the artefacts that were relocated to the USSR during the war and returned to the GDR in 1958. At the time, it was mistakenly given to the East Berlin Mus

  7. International Day of Provenance Research (08.05.2026)

    WITH REGISTRATION, ADMISSION FREE (some offers subject to charge) The 8th International Day of Provenance Research will take place on 8 April 2026. On this day, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will offer insights into the topics and work of provenance research within their museums and institutions.

  8. Mourning for Adriaan von Müller (01.12.2021)

    Prof. Dr Adriaan von Müller, long-time director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin, passed away on 28 November 2021 at the age of 93. Born in Berlin in 1928, he began working at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History after completing his doctorate at

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Smithsonian Institution launch German-American exchange programme on provenance research (18.10.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI, Washington, USA), two of the world's largest museum complexes and research institutions, are launching a project to systematically network German and American provenance researchers. The three-year "German-American

  10. Over 150 masterpieces of traditional Japanese art from the Klaus F. Naumann Collection for the Berlin Museum of Asian Art: donation and purchase (02.04.2009)

    The Museum of Asian Art at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is today receiving the most important donation of traditional Japanese art in around a hundred years in a festive ceremony. Klaus F. Naumann, a native of Berlin who lives in Tokyo, is giving the museum more than one hundred works, including