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  1. Berlin Egyptian Museum becomes project partner in the establishment of the Akhenaten Museum near Amarna (19.11.2019)

    Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin committed to establishing the Akhenaten Museum in el-Minja - Parzinger signs corresponding memorandum and welcomes support from the Federal Government's Museum Agency Since 2002, the Akhenaten Museum (Akhenaten Museum) has been

  2. "A day in the countryside" - summer festival at the Berlin Kulturforum as the finale of the cultural summer festival (29.08.2023)

    For the second time, a "Day in the Green" will take place on 3 September at Berlin's Kulturforum and celebrate the finale of the Cultural Summer Festival. Together with the St. Matthew Foundation, the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, the Neue Nationalgalerie, the Gemäldeg

  3. 100 years of Bauhaus Dessau - an anniversary kick-off at the Neue Nationalgalerie from 13 to 15 June 2025 (19.05.2025)

    For one weekend, Mies van der Rohe's building will focus on the materiality of modernism under the motto "On the substance" Exactly one hundred years ago, the Staatliches Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau. In Anhalt, the "Silicon Valley of the 1920s", the school entered its most dynamic and fruitf

  4. Sustainable and Functional: Extension of the Gipsformerei (10.01.2023)

    Architectural practice Gerkan, Marg and Partner (gmp) wins design competition for the comprehensive refurbishment and extension of the Gipsformerei. A winner has been announced in the competition launched by the Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (Federal Office for Building and Regional Plannin

  5. An Extremely Generous Gift: The Keys to Haus Bastian (12.03.2019)

    The keys to the future Center for Cultural Education of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin were handed over in a ceremony today The building designed by David Chipperfield Architects and located on Kupfergraben, an historical street in Berlin’s Museumsinsel district, was ceremoniously given to the Stif

  6. Close Cooperation with Colombia (16.09.2022)

    The SPK and the Colombian Embassy have begun discussions on two important masks of the Kogi indigenous people The Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) holds two masks of the indigenous Kogi people from the Sierra Nevada de Santa

  7. Patrons and Collectors

    Patrons and Collectors Gifts and generous support from its patrons raised the profile of the SPK's institutions in their early years. Long-standing relationships with collectors are still contributing to superb exhibitions, research work, and new museum buildings today. James Simon (1851-1932), an i

  8. Another significant increase in the number of visits to German museums - over 112 million museum visits in 2012 (16.12.2013)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 112,807,633 museum visits in 2012. This represents an increase of 2.9 per cent compared to 2011 and is the highest number of visits since the survey of visit figures began in 1981. These figures have now been published in the overall statistical survey of museu

  9. New scanning technology CultLab3D: How museum pieces can be digitised on the assembly line (05.11.2014)

    It's a revolution in museums: with the CultLab3D scanning line, collection artefacts can be captured in three dimensions and converted into authentic digital models in just a few minutes. While 3D reproduction techniques for museum treasures were previously expensive and, above all, time-consuming,

  10. Haus Bastian will expand Berlin's Museum Island in future: the donation agreement has been signed (28.09.2017)

    The Bastian family will hand over the gallery building designed by David Chipperfield at Kupfergraben 10 to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation next year. It will be used in future as a centre for cultural education and will bear the name "Haus Bastian der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußi