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  1. 10 MUSEUMS X 10 CONCERTS - Chamber Concerts of the DSO with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (12.09.2024)

    Start of the new series on Fri, 13 Sept. at the Museum of European Cultures Unique concerts by selected ensembles of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in unique venues of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) - that's what 10 MUSEEN X 10 KONZERTE offers. Since 2010, the DSO and th

  2. Nazi-looted art: SPK restitutes to Cassirer heirs (03.03.2025)

    SPK restitutes two works by Max Slevogt to the heirs of Bruno Cas-sirer and buys back both works. The painting "Portrait of Bruno Cassirer", the purchase of which was made possible by the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, will be exhibited in the Alte Nationalgalerie from March 4, 2025 SPK has restit

  3. Works of "Degenerate Art" believed lost recovered from Berlin bomb rubble (08.11.2010)

    During excavations in the historic centre of Berlin, archaeologists from the state of Berlin have found eleven sculptures that were confiscated from German museums in 1937 as part of the National Socialist "Degenerate Art" campaign. They are bronzes by Edwin Scharff, Otto Baum, Marg Moll, Gustav Hei

  4. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation continues cooperation with Georgian partners / Ceremony at the Bode Museum (28.05.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has maintained close relations with Georgia for many years. A highlight of the cooperation to date was the EU Twinning project carried out with the Georgian National Museum between 2010 and 2012. Over the next few years, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will b

  5. The future of Berlin's Kulturforum begins: SPK launches ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century (03.09.2015)

    New museum complex will house the important holdings of the Nationalgalerie - ideas competition to deliver architectural concept and submit proposals for urban planning organisation The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is launching one of its most important new building projects. Over the next

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation finds another fair and equitable solution with the heirs of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (20.04.2016)

    Following an initial restitution in 2012, works from the collection of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (1879 - 1943) were recently identified again at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Prof Glaser, museum director and art collector, lost his position in 1933 due to his Jewish descent and emigrated. The

  7. Database, capacity building, dark field research: how the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation supports the protection of cultural property in Syria (01.06.2016)

    On the occasion of the International Meeting of Experts on the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Syria, which is taking place from 2 to 4 June 2016 at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says: "If one day the guns fall s

  8. Restitution of a lost painting to the SPK (23.09.2025)

    On 23 September, the Belgian House of Representatives returned a painting by Friedrich Nerly to the SPK. It belonged to the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and was previously considered a loss as a result of the Second World War The painting "SS. Giovanni e

  9. Slight increase in visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 (16.12.2025)

    The Institute for Museum Research reports: 107.4 million visits to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 - museums show more special exhibitions again - data collected for zoos, animal parks and botanical gardens for the first time Museums and exhibition centres in Germany enjoyed a 1.3 percent inc

  10. Ceremony marking the change in the office of Director General of the National Museums in Berlin. Speech by the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger (31.10.2008)

    - The spoken word prevails - Salutations, When you, dear Mr Schuster, took up your post as Director General of the Bavarian State Painting Collections in Munich in 1998, you were asked whether the position of Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, which became vacant the following year,