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The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently transferred ownership of the two watercolours "Susanna" (1914) and "Mother and Child" (1918) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) to the heiress of the art critic and collector Paul Westheim, Dr Margit Frenk. The works were purchased by the Prussian Cul

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its museums are taking part in the "Berlin Says Thank You!" campaign day in recognition of the voluntary commitment of Berliners in helping refugees: the Pergamon Museum, the Bode Museum and the Musical Instrument Museum are offering free admission and f

The great collector and patron Heinz Berggruen died in Paris on 23 February 2007. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the National Museums in Berlin commemorate the honorary citizen of Berlin with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Dahlem Forest Cemetery. On the tenth anniversary of his death

The West Berlin painter Peter Grämer had dug through the ruins in the 1960s - his widow Christine Weber has now handed over 1500 objects, mainly ceramics, but also bronze, iron and stone. The Martin-Gropius-Bau, which is so well-known in Berlin today and was long used as a museum of arts and crafts,

Much more than mindless gaming: as collectables, subjects of academic research and a medium for imparting knowledge, computer games have long been a focus of cultural heritage and research institutions. There’s plenty going on within the SPK too: the latest highlight was a meet-up with female game d

The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Director General of the National Museums in Berlin see a new building at the Kulturforum as a significant and realisable step towards the further development of Berlin's museum landscape. This will create the urgently needed presenta

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

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recovered four paintings from the Alte Nationalgalerie that had been lost since the Second World War. They were offered independently of each other in the art trade from private ownership and identified as the property of the Prussian Cultural Heritage F

SPK President Marion Ackermann, together with museum directors and curators, presented a selection of special exhibition highlights from next year’s programme. From Thomas Gainsborough on the 300th anniversary of his birth, Ai Weiwei at the Bode Museum, Arnold Böcklin beyond the myth, international

At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected 37-year-old Christoph Rauch as Head of the Oriental Department of the Berlin State Library. The position has been vacant since the departure of Dr Hartmut-Ortwin Feistel at the end of June 20