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  1. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes works from the Buchthal Collection (15.08.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is returning nine works from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to the heirs of the Jewish entrepreneur and collector Eugen Moritz Buchthal. One of them, the etching "Fehmarnhäuser mit großem Baum" (1908) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, is

  2. Restitution of a drawing by Jakob Philipp Hackert from the Kupferstichkabinett (30.04.2019)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns the drawing to the heirs of the previous Jewish owner - the work was sold in 1939 in an emergency situation - English version: please find PDF below German text - Yesterday, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation handed over the ink brush drawing "Auf

  3. Germany-wide study: museums enjoy the highest level of trust (19.04.2024)

    SPK Institute for Museum Research publishes the first population-representative study on trust in museums in Germany Museums enjoy the highest level of trust in Germany. This is the conclusion of a study by the Institute for Museum Research. According to the study, museums in particular have the pot

  4. The "simplicity of the single element" (19.06.2024)

    Art-in-architecture competition for depots and workshops of the National Museums in Berlin decided The winning design "Ode to Care" by Rayyane Tabet will enrich the inner courtyard of the depots and workshops of the National Museums in Berlin-Friedrichshagen. The competition was organised by the Fed

  5. Provenance research is followed by mediation: Project to research human remains from West Africa is extended (04.07.2024)

    Provenance of historical skull collection researched - funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media enables mediation in West Africa Over a period of three years, researchers from the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin have been workin

  6. Paintings thought lost have returned to the Alte Nationalgalerie (03.12.2009)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recovered four paintings from the Alte Nationalgalerie that had been lost since the Second World War. They were offered independently of each other in the art trade from private ownership and identified as the property of the Prussian Cultural Heritage F

  7. 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

  8. Federal government funds "Museum 4.0" pilot project (15.11.2016)

    At the end of last week, the Bundestag's Budget Committee approved funding for the "Museum 4.0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future" project. The project, which is being led by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, also involves the Deutsche Aus-wandererhaus Bremerhaven, the Deutsc

  9. Open, diverse, cosmopolitan: Herzog & de Meuron present the revised plans for the National Gallery's Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum (09.10.2018)

    With the Museum of the 20th Century, a building is being erected at the Kulturforum that will develop great charisma and at the same time fulfil the complex museum tasks to a high degree. The architecture that will be created in the coming years will be even more open to its surroundings and will fo

  10. SPK restitutes five works from the Ueberall Collection (20.05.2019)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted five works from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin to the heirs of the art dealer Heinrich Ueberall. The works had come to the museums in the course of a purchase by the Dresdner Bank in 1935. Heinrich Ueberall died in Sachsenha