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  1. Privacy policy for the processing of personal data in video-monitored areas

    Privacy policy for the processing of personal data in video-monitored areas The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) uses video surveillance at its museums and other properties. In the following, we would like to inform you about the processing of personal data in this context. A. Responsible

  2. Start of the second construction phase for the overall completion of the Pergamonmuseum (06.03.2025)

    On-schedule continuation of the basic refurbishment and extension of the Pergamon Museum with the start of the southern construction phase on Berlin's Museum Island Construction work on the second construction phase of the Pergamonmuseum is scheduled to begin in March 2025. The construction measures

  3. Democracy Day on 7 June at the Island Festival: Who does the black, red and gold belong to? (21.05.2026)

    Organisations from across Germany will be showcasing their work on UNESCO World Heritage Day on Berlin’s Museum Island – a performance by Gabriele Stötzer – young people debating conscription and cultural subsidies – an interactive exhibition on the history of democracy – Julia Ruhs, Paul Nolte and

  4. Udo Kittelmann leaves the Nationalgalerie at his own request on 31 October 2020 (21.08.2019)

    Director headed the five-hall network for twelve years - SPK and SMB regret the move - Parzinger: His work will endure because he has made the Nationalgalerie a global player The Director of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Udo Kittelmann , will not be extending his contract,

  5. Exemplary partnership between Ethnological Museum and Museums Association of Namibia on colonial collection launched (18.09.2019)

    Provenance research with Namibian scientists at the Ethnological Museum - Objects travel to Windhoek - Networking with cultural heritage communities, artists and the public in Namibia in the project "Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures" As part of a partnership between the Museu

  6. SPK and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin cooperate with Saxony-Anhalt: furniture designer Erich Dieckmann to be honoured with exhibition in Halle and Berlin in 2022 (12.05.2021)

    Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin as well as Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle to launch the rediscovery of the Bauhäusler in spring 2022 - Saxony-Anhalt's Minister of Culture Robra hands over funding decisio

  7. Foundation Board has decided: Dr Achim Bonte becomes the new Director General of the Berlin State Library - Prof. Dr Rebecca Wolf takes over the State Institute for Music Research (24.03.2021)

    Dr Achim Bonte is to become the new Director General of the Berlin State Library. This was decided unanimously by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today, Wednesday. Bonte succeeds Barbara Schneider-Kempf, who is retiring after seventeen years at the helm of Germany'

  8. museum4punkt0: Try out & share digital mediation (24.06.2022)

    Projects for digital cultural mediation present prototypes and provide insights into project work - Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth: unique concept. The project partners of the museum4punkt0 joint project presented the applications they have been developing since 2017 at a showcase in Ber

  9. First exhibition of the bust of Nefertiti 100 years ago (27.03.2024)

    On 1 April 1924, the colourful bust of Queen Nefertiti was presented to a wider public for the first time in a museum setting, in a newly designed section of the permanent exhibition of the Egyptian Collection in the Neues Museum. The bust was found in Tell-el-Amarna in 1912 as part of a scientific

  10. Sam Bardaouil und Till Fellrath named Directors of Hamburger Bahnhof (10.09.2021)

    The founders of the multidisciplinary curatorial platform Art Reoriented will jointly lead the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art – Berlin of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) as Directors from January 1, 2022 At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the