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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

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

New SPK Act in force - Foundation Board elects Executive Board - Articles of Association and Rules of Procedure approved Weimer: SPK becomes future-proof and even more efficient - Ackermann: New Board of Directors will be responsible for the overall strategic direction in future The new law for the

The Germany-wide joint project for digital cultural mediation, museum4punkt0, is presenting the results of its work at a two-day closing event that opened today at the Kulturforum in Berlin. / museum4punkt0 | workbook published as a "toolbox" for practitioners The aim of museum4punkt0 was to make mu

The motto of this year’s edition of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Biennale is “Paradise lost? – On the threat to nature” (13.2. – 1.3.2025). As part of this festival, there are numerous events taking place both in the Philharmonie and at and in cooperation with the neighboring institutions at the Ku

My Berlin began with Heinz Berggruen - professionally and emotionally. When I became President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in February 1999, one of my first encounters was with Heinz and Bettina Berggruen in the Stüler Building, in the Berggruen Collection. It was friendship at firs

The Board of Trustees today unanimously elected Prof. Dr Dr h.c. mult. Hermann Parzinger as the future President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK). On 1 March 2008, Parzinger will succeed Prof. Dr. h.c. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, who has held the office since February 1999. The Chairman

The kick-off meeting for the ILLICID research project took place today at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin with international participation. Over the next three years, ILLICID will use dark field research to gather information on the illegal trade in cultural artefacts in Germany.

German museums and exhibition centres recorded a total of almost 118 million visits in 2014, almost 3 million more than in the previous year. These figures were published by the Institute for Museum Research at the National Museums in Berlin and the German Museums Association. They have been conduct

The sculpture "Victoria of Calvatone" from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, which had been missing since the end of the war and was on display in the Altes Museum on Berlin's Museum Island until 1939, has resurfaced in Russia in the course of scientific research. This emerges from a r