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  1. Visitor days in the Pergamonmuseum south wing shortly before the start of construction - opening hours extended (27.02.2025)

    More tickets available! 7 to 9 March 2025: Babylon in Berlin - Visitor Days at the Pergamonmuseum South Wing The first tickets for the visiting days at the Pergamonmuseum were sold out within a few days. On Monday, 3 March 2025, additional ticket contingents will be released for sale from 12 noon. A

  2. Improved Service and Visitor Accessibility, and 250,000 more Visits to the Museums (09.04.2019)

    Around 250,000 more visits to the Staatliche Museen in 2018 – from now on, the SPK institutions are offering more service across the board in the form of longer opening hours, new spaces, and digital transformation. The number of visits to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin)

  3. Parzinger: a first step and a great opportunity (13.07.2020)

    The SPK president comments on the recommendations of the Scientific Board presented today. The goal is to "strengthen the potential for development and not to damage ... the special aura, but to enhance [it]." On July 13, 2020, the German Council of Science and Humanities presented the results of it

  4. Modern and user-friendly: the Geheimes Staatsarchiv has a completely new website (12.05.2020)

    Service and user-friendliness lie at the focus of the fully redesigned website of the Geheimes Staatsarchiv. The new website demonstrates that the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Privy State Archives) is a modern facility with a commitment to service. The website has been c

  5. "Don't call me...": Joint Initiative Against Racism (10.05.2021)

    To mark Germany's Diversity Day on May 18, 2021, rbb, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are taking a visible stand against racism by projecting a social video series on the facade of the James Simon Gallery. Every day, people in Berlin and Brandenburg experie

  6. Announcement of the Ernst Waldschmidt Prize (18.07.2008)

    The Ernst Waldschmidt Prize has been awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 1988 for scientifically valuable achievements in the field of Indology, particularly in Waldschmidt's areas of specialisation (Buddhism, Indian and Central Asian archae

  7. Composer Edwin Geist's manuscripts returned to his heirs - on loan to the Berlin State Library (17.11.2008)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned ten autograph manuscripts from the estate of the composer and music writer Edwin Geist to his heirs. At the same time, an open-ended loan agreement was concluded so that the manuscripts will remain in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußisch

  8. Mourning for Edmund de Unger - internationally renowned collector of Islamic art (15.02.2011)

    Edmund de Unger, whose private collection in the field of Islamic art, known internationally as the Keir Collection, achieved worldwide significance, died on 25 January 2011 in Ham near London at the age of 92. Edmund de Unger was laid to rest today in Richmond / London with great sympathy from inte

  9. Schlüter's colossal figures arrive at the Humboldt Forum (15.02.2019)

    The eight surviving colossal figures from the workshop of the famous sculptor and architect Andreas Schlüter have returned to their original location on Schlossplatz. The sandstone figures, all on loan from the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, have been transported

  10. SPK Board of Trustees: Dr Sibylle Hoiman appointed new Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin (06.12.2022)

    Dr Sibylle Hoiman will be the new Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts at the National Museums in Berlin. This was decided by the SPK Foundation Board at its meeting on 5 December 2022. The art historian, who currently heads the Architectural Art Archive at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, su