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  1. Delve into the depths of the SPK’s collection histories – at the eighth Provenance Research Day on 8 April 2026 (26.03.2026)

    A rediscovered Madonna, the history of the sculpture collection, the networks of Surrealism, talking mats, and the responsible handling of human remains – all of this is linked to the work of provenance researchers. On 8 April, they will be talking about it. This year marks the eighth edition of Int

  2. We’ve got to pull it off

    16.02.2017 We’ve got to pull it off Article 1990–1999–2017: Dagmar Neuland-Kitzerow from the Museum of European Cultures offers insights into and a glimpse of a museum in flux. You can imagine all the collection relocations following reunification as a giant jigsaw puzzle: during the GDR era, the Mu

  3. More than sixty years after the end of the war, a Florentine Mannerist portrait of a lady finds its way back to Berlin (31.05.2006)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe have good news to announce: A small-format Florentine Mannerist painting that went missing in the turmoil of the Second World War has today been handed over to the Berlin Gemäldegalerie by the London-based Commissi

  4. Architectural competition for the new depot building of the National Museums in Berlin decided (12.06.2008)

    The Speicherstadt for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin-Friedrichshagen The architects AV1 Architekten, Kaiserslautern, are the winners of the competition for the new depots and workshops of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin-Friedrichshagen. The j

  5. Media worlds - knowledge, information and communication in the digital revolution (27.08.2014)

    As part of the event "Mediale Welten - Wissen, Information und Kommunikation im digitalen Umbruch", experts will discuss the consequences and development potential of digital communication technologies and the associated future changes to the world of work in the fields of science and research on 1

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Smithsonian Institution launch German-American exchange programme on provenance research (18.10.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI, Washington, USA), two of the world's largest museum complexes and research institutions, are launching a project to systematically network German and American provenance researchers. The three-year "German-American

  7. Return from the Ethnological Museum to Native People in Alaska (16.05.2018)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned nine objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. Foundation President Hermann Parzinger presented them to the Vice President of the Chugach Alaska Corporation, Joh

  8. Visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in Germany stabilised at a high level in 2018 (20.12.2019)

    With around 111.6 million visits, the museums maintained the high level of 2016. The museums that took part in the survey reported around 8,800 special exhibitions, which is almost the same number as the previous year. The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 111,662,229 visits in

  9. 100 years, European and not a bit secret (10.06.2024)

    Centenary of the opening of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Dahlem - Ceremony with words of welcome from Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth and Minister President Reiner Haseloff - Online access to the cross-foundation archive portal archive.spk-berlin.de In 2024,

  10. Colonnades of the Museum Island Berlin completed (29.08.2024)

    Final construction phase to restore the building to its original state completed Berlin. Under the direction of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR), the listed colonnades on Berlin's Museum Island have been restored to their original state. The final construction phase, inclu