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Donation contract signed - Axel Marx: Our family remains connected to the art city of Berlin - Hermann Parzinger: Overwhelming gesture from the family The family of the well-known Berlin collector Erich Marx, who died two years ago, has donated the entire holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys

The State of Berlin intends to acquire the Rieckhallen at the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin. To this effect, it has signed a memorandum of understanding with CA Immo. The real estate company CA Immo is willing to part with the Rieckhallen in exchange for property of the same valu

“How will we build the future?” asks the recently published annual report of the SPK, which focuses on the internal changes underway at the Foundation and the people behind them. The 2021 Annual Report of the SPK has now been published. In his foreword, SPK President Hermann Parzinger recalls a “yea

Prof. Dr Stephan Waetzoldt died on 25 May 2008 at the age of 88. He was General Director of the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz from 1965 to 1983. With foresight and skill, he turned the museums in West Berlin, scarred by the division of the city and its collections, back into a cornersto

Two important faience vases from the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin were recently identified as former Jewish property. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has reached an agreement with the heirs that the vases can remain in the Museum of Decorative Arts, where they have

Last Thursday, the Neues Museum der Museumsinsel Berlin was honoured with one of the main prizes of the "European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award". The six "Grand Prix Laureates" were selected from a total of 139 projects submitted from 26 European countries. The jury was imp

The results of the DNA analysis of Tutankhamun's mummy just published by Zahi Hawass, Director General of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, have a direct connection to the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin. One of the most famous exhibits is the relief "Walk in the Garden", c. 1330

The Neues Museum, Museum Island Berlin, was honoured today with the main prize of the "European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award" in the "Conservation" category during a ceremony at the Baerwaldbad (Berlin-Kreuzberg). Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Herit

What do the bust of Nefertiti, the Market Gate of Miletus and Caspar David Friedrich's painting "The Lone Tree" have in common? Not only are they all famous crowd-pullers at the National Museums in Berlin, they are also at the centre of a new international piano art festival that Young Euro Classic

The winner of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship will conduct research at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) on the museum presentation of knowledge and, in close cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN), will also provide new im