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  1. Cultural ambassadors on wheels: SPK and Flix agree mobility partnership for the Museum Island Berlin (19.12.2024)

    From 2025, Museum Island Berlin will be celebrating its 200th anniversary - starting with the anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone for the Altes Museum on 9 July. The travel company Flix and SPK have joined forces to enable even more people to enjoy culture and publicise the island's an

  2. 200 years of Museum Island Berlin: SPK celebrates a unique place of world culture for five years (18.12.2024)

    Gold hat and Nefertiti, Cleopatra and Caspar David Friedrich, Canova and Pergamon. The curved façade of the Bode Museum, the temple of the Alte Nationalgalerie, the resurrected Neues Museum and the idyllic Kolonnadenhof. The Museum Island is one of Berlin's main attractions and one of the world's to

  3. Museums are popular - and important economic location factors (12.12.2024)

    Another rise in visitor numbers to German museums and exhibition centres - And: ongoing study by the Institute for Museum Research shows that public funding invested in museums has doubled Museums and exhibition centres in Germany continue to enjoy increasing popularity. This is shown by the overall

  4. Between construction site and opening - large-scale architecture of the Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamonmuseum under construction (11.02.2025)

    Large parts of the Pergamon Museum will reopen in spring 2027. The Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Museum of Islamic Art will present their highlights in the north wing and central building. While construction work is still underway in some of their rooms, the antique artefacts are alrea

  5. Berlin's most beautiful summer venue: the Kolonnaden Bar on Museum Island reopens (04.06.2025)

    SPK, the Berlin Vagabund Brewery and visitBerlin start the new season together - with over 50 free events and the island beer "Wissensdurst" - Kolonnaden-Bar opens between 5 June and 31 August 2025 Wednesdays to Sundays from 12 noon or 2 pm to 10 pm. The new Kolonnaden Bar on the southern bank of th

  6. Celebration on World Heritage Day: Berlin's Museum Island turns 200 (01.06.2025)

    Minister of State for Culture Wolfram Weimer, Berlin's Senator for Culture Sarah Wedl-Wilson and the new SPK President Marion Ackermann appeal not only to preserve the Museum Island World Heritage Site, but also to develop it for future generations The foundation of Berlin's Museum Island 200 years

  7. Ceremony at the Neues Museum: Hermann Parzinger bids farewell as President of the SPK, Marion Ackermann inaugurated (27.05.2025)

    Minister of State for Culture Weimer, Saxony's Prime Minister Kretschmer and Senator for Culture Wedl-Wilson honour formative years - speeches by Markschies and Chipperfield The former President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, was bid farewell on Tuesday (27 May) wit

  8. Museum Island Berlin (22.05.2025)

    Celebrating a world star: 200 years of Museum Island Berlin - The big island festival from 30 May to 1 June 2025 Lots on offer for free and outdoors - With the island day ticket for 14 euros to all museums - Almost 70 free guided tours - Kolonnadenbar opens for the island festival - Friends and part

  9. Power outage in Berlin: free admission to SPK museums (06.01.2026)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation grants free admission to its museums up to and including Thursday for those affected by the power outage The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is offering all visitors affected by the current power outage in Berlin free admission to all museums of the Nation

  10. Slight increase in visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 (16.12.2025)

    The Institute for Museum Research reports: 107.4 million visits to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 - museums show more special exhibitions again - data collected for zoos, animal parks and botanical gardens for the first time Museums and exhibition centres in Germany enjoyed a 1.3 percent inc