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  1. Worlds in the West Wing: Staatliche Museen open in the Humboldt Forum (22.09.2021)

    After years spent moving the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, they are finally on show in the heart of Berlin, with an additional focus on their colonial contexts. Together with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Minister of State for Culture Moni

  2. National Museums in Berlin

    National Museums in Berlin Glimpses of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Multiteaser headline Bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti © SPK / Pierre Adenis The Menzel Room of the Alte Nationalgalerie © SPK / Pierre Adenis Storage facility for the collection of classical antiquities in the Archäologisches

  3. The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island - a jewel of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (20.04.2009)

    The New Museum. On 16 October 2009, the Neues Museum will reopen after 70 years. The building, which was severely damaged in the Second World War and preserved as a ruin, has been restored over the last ten years according to plans by David Chipperfield and was handed over to the Prussian Cultural H

  4. "museum4punkt0" starts: Ideas lab for digital applications in German museums (08.05.2017)

    Today sees the launch of "museum4punkt0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future", one of the most visionary projects in the German museum landscape. In a joint virtual experimental space, the project partners are exploring the possibilities and opportunities offered by the latest digital t

  5. Night concert on the Museum Island: 'Notturno' at the Neues Museum on 16 January Works by C. Ph. E. Bach, Couperin, Vivaldi and Zelenka in dialogue with art (09.01.2015)

    For the second 'Notturno' chamber concert of the season, an eight-piece ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will embark on an interdisciplinary search for clues in the Neues Museum on 16 January. Since its reopening in 2009, the building on Museum Island has housed important exhib

  6. Haus Bastian on Berlin's Museum Island is being officially handed over to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today. From the summer, forward-looking educational concepts of the National Museums in Berlin will be developed and trialled there. (12.03.2019)

    During the ceremonial handover of the keys, Foundation President Hermann Parzinger and Director General Michael Eissenhauer thanked Céline, Heiner and Aeneas Bastian for their extraordinarily generous gift. The building on Kupfergraben, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, has been dedicated t

  7. Ägyptisches Museum Berlin is a partner of the new Akhenaten Museum (19.11.2019)

    A new museum is being born in Al-Minya, Egypt. Berlin is involved in the effort – SPK President Parzinger has signed a memorandum to that effect. The Ägyptische Museum und Papyrussammlung (Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) is now

  8. The Museum Berggruen is becoming more active, more diverse and more independent / The Berggruen family will support the Museum Berggruen with one million euros a year from 2025 (10.09.2021)

    The Museum Berggruen of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which belongs to the SPK, will significantly expand its programme work and gain greater independence for this purpose. In order to make this possible, the Berggruen family will support the museum with one million euros a year once the refurbis

  9. Berlin Egyptian Museum becomes project partner in the establishment of the Akhenaten Museum near Amarna (19.11.2019)

    Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin committed to establishing the Akhenaten Museum in el-Minja - Parzinger signs corresponding memorandum and welcomes support from the Federal Government's Museum Agency Since 2002, the Akhenaten Museum (Akhenaten Museum) has been

  10. German museums and exhibition centres continue their upward trend. Over 106 million museum visits in 2009 (30.11.2010)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 106,820,203 museum visits in 2009. This represents an increase of 1.9 per cent compared to 2008. The Institute for Museum Research at the National Museums in Berlin, an institution of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, in co-operation with the German Mu