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Bring on the good life: on 14 September 2025, the Kulturforum Berlin celebrated its annual summer festival – both indoors and outdoors. With guided tours, workshops, concerts and, of course, the legendary open-air buffet

Visitors to the sculpture garden of the Neue Nationalgalerie can currently witness a striking phenomenon: every hour on the hour, the garden fills with thick wisps of mist. They shroud the sculptures and people in an air of mystery before the wind blows them away.

Through their patronage, Johanna and Eduard Arnhold made a significant contribution to Berlin’s cultural life. Their generous work was erased from the collective memory by the Nazis. The SPK feels a special connection to the memory of the Arnholds.

The green courtyard of the State Institute for Music Research is a hidden gem in the heart of the evolving Kulturforum: this is where we meet Director Rebecca Wolf for the second SPK summer interview

The foundation stone for the Altes Museum was laid 200 years ago: now an exhibition tells the story of its early days – it is the final exhibition by Andreas Scholl, who is bidding farewell to the Collection of Classical Antiquities

Stefan Simon, Director of the Rathgen Research Laboratory, on his research visit to Canada

The SPK is returning 73 medieval documents relating to the Teutonic Order to Poland. Johannes Götz from the GStA is an expert on the Teutonic Order and explains in an interview why the documents are still relevant today – and why they belong in Poland.

Marion Ackermann writes about the SPK’s international outlook

When it comes to colonial legacies in museums, the issue is not merely about objects acquired under unjust circumstances or even stolen, and whether or not they should be returned. The visual imagery created within Europe itself also serves as a record of the colonial past. Colonialism thrived on ev

Hidden Gems with Joy Clees