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  1. The Pergamon Museum is coming back! (04.05.2026)

    From 4 June 2027, all the buildings on Berlin’s Museum Island will finally be open. The Pergamon Altar, Islamic art and Babylonian highlights will then be on display once again. The Pergamon Museum, located on Berlin’s Museum Island – a UNESCO World Heritage Site – will reopen its doors to the publi

  2. Creating opportunities together

    13.05.2026 Creating opportunities together Why the games industry and cultural heritage organisations are working together Article Much more than mindless gaming: as collectables, subjects of academic study and a medium for imparting knowledge, computer games have long been a focus of cultural herit

  3. Annual balance 2025: Around 3.6 million visits to the museums of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (29.01.2026)

    Annual balance sheet 2025: museums of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz record around 3.6 million visits, with the Neue Nationalgalerie leading the way. SPK President Marion Ackermann is satisfied and wants to invest further funds in attractive exhibition projects. Despite a decline in tourism t

  4. The Stabi card catalogues will be retained for the time being (16.02.2026)

    The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin recently hosted an academic discussion entitled "Card catalogues. Untouchable cultural asset, active object of research or substitutable historical tool?". The colloquium demonstrated the academic interest in fundamental research into the history and significance of ca

  5. Elephantine (30.03.2026)

    An interview with Verena Lepper, curator of the new special exhibition “Elephantine” at the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection – State Museums of Berlin, which will be on display on Berlin’s Museum Island from the end of April.

  6. Elephantine (30.03.2026)

    An interview with Verena Lepper, curator of the new special exhibition “Elephantine” at the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection – State Museums of Berlin, which will be on display on Berlin’s Museum Island from the end of April.

  7. Finally, Prussia!

    10.02.2017 Finally, Prussia! Article Joachim Marzahn on the major clear-out in the basement of the Pergamon Museum following German reunification. In 1989, Marzahn was a research assistant at the Museum of the Ancient Near East (East Berlin); he became its director in 1990 and later chief curator of

  8. "Hold your nerve!" at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2018 in the subjects of piano and composition (08.01.2018)

    The public competitions of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition, which will be held this year in the subjects of piano and composition, will begin on 17 January 2018. The Konzerthausorchester Berlin, conducted by Corinna Niemeyer, has been secured as a partner for both the piano fi

  9. By train and bus to the island: SPK x Flix (10.03.2026)

    The mobility partnership between SPK and Flix is extended: ten specially branded Flix buses advertise the 200th anniversary of the Museum Island Berlin - special giveaways for customers At the start of the celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of Museum Island Berlin, the mobility provider Flix

  10. 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