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  1. Museum Island Berlin: Celebration of 10 years UNESCO World Heritage Site and reopening of the Colonnade Courtyard (04.06.2010)

    On Sunday, 6 June 2010, the ceremony to mark the tenth anniversary of the inscription of the Museum Island Berlin on the UNESCO World Heritage List will take place at 11 a.m. in the newly restored rotunda of the Altes Museum. This will be followed by the reopening of the restored Colonnade Courtyard

  2. 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

  3. SPK Board of Trustees approves agreement between the public sector and the House of Hohenzollern on disputed ownership issues (26.05.2025)

    Ownership of disputed collections will be transferred to a foundation under private law - SPK gives up objects as part of a compensation scheme - Parzinger: Museum visitors stand to gain the most from this agreement On 26 May 2025, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,

  4. Change in the office of Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (20.12.2010)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, today unanimously elected Prof Dr Günther Schauerte as the new Vice-President of the SPK. Mr Schauerte is currently Deputy Director General of the National Museums in Berlin -

  5. New museum in Berlin receives EU prize for contemporary architecture (12.04.2011)

    The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island has been awarded the "European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture/Mies van der Rohe Award 2011". This was announced yesterday by the European Commission. It was selected from 343 applicants from 33 European countries. The prize will be awarded on 20

  6. Off to the Humboldt Forum: Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art present themselves at the Open Construction Site Day this weekend (09.06.2016)

    A palace without an emperor, the flaming Buddha, a mysterious totem pole - stories like these will be told at the Humboldt Forum in future. This coming weekend, the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin will once again take visitors on a journey into the f

  7. Double bass from the Musical Instrument Museum adorns a 50-euro gold coin (26.04.2018)

    Five-part series to honour German musical instrument making planned until 2022 / Presentation of the first coin on 8 May at 6 pm with Bettina Hagedorn, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance, and SPK Vice President Günther Schauerte at the Musical Instrument Museum A double

  8. Thorsten Strauß remains at the helm of the Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage: Representatives of German business accompany the transformation of the SPK (15.03.2018)

    Thorsten Strauß, Global Head of Art, Culture & Sports at Deutsche Bank AG, continues to head the Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage. He was unanimously confirmed as Chairman last week and was already involved in the previous Museum Island Board of Trustees. Anne Reidt, Head of the Cultu

  9. Welfenschatz: U.S. Supreme Court grants SPK's motion to rule on the admissibility of the proceedings in the U.S. (02.07.2020)

    The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will address the legal questions raised by the SPK regarding the admissibility of the Guelph Treasure proceedings in the USA. The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will review the legal questions raised by the SPK regarding jurisdiction over th

  10. Welfenschatz: U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously in favour of SPK (04.02.2021)

    The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled on fundamental legal questions regarding the jurisdiction of U.S. courts in the legal dispute over the Guelph Treasure. It overturned the decision of the lower courts, which had rejected the SPK's motion to dismiss, and referred the case back to the U.S. Distri