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  1. Metropolises and megacities - once and now. An event in the Science Year 2012 - Future Project EARTH (06.09.2012)

    More than half of the world's population already lives in cities. The trend towards megacities is continuing. At the event "Metropolises and megacities - past and present" on 12 September 2012, experts will shed light on the phenomenon of urbanisation from a historical and current perspective and di

  2. Topping-out ceremony for the Lindenkuppel of the Berlin State Library (10.07.2013)

    Today, the construction companies working at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's Unter den Linden site, together with the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, the Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, and the President of the

  3. Conference "Cultural property in danger: looted excavations and illegal trade" (11.11.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute and the German Association for Archaeology are organising an international conference in Berlin on 11 and 12 December in cooperation with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Federal Forei

  4. Topping-out ceremony on Museum Island: The James-Simon-Galerie takes shape (13.04.2016)

    With the construction of the high colonnades, the new entrance building to the Museum Island is visibly taking shape. The topping-out wreath was hoisted over the shell at midday today (13 April 2016). In the presence of Federal Building Minister Barbara Hendricks, Minister of State for Culture Monik

  5. Cooperation with Gerhard Richter: "Birkenau" cycle on show at the Alte Nationalgalerie - Over 100 works by the artist to be on permanent display in Berlin in future (15.03.2021)

    Gerhard Richter, one of the most influential contemporary artists, is donating an extensive collection of more than 100 works to the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin for the "Museum of the 20th Century" at the Kulturforum. A corresponding agreement between the GERHARD RICHTER KUNST

  6. Free admission for children and young people up to the age of 18 - new admission regulations at the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (05.07.2010)

    From 1 October 2010, children and young people will have free admission to the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Musikinstrumenten-Museum) until the age of 18 - instead of the previous age of 16. This change was decided by the SPK Foundation Council l

  7. Turkey's demand for the return of the Sphinx of Hattusha (25.02.2011)

    In connection with Turkey's demand for the return of the Sphinx of Hattusha, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, explains: "The Hittite sphinx from Bogazköy (Hattusha) has been the subject of demands for its return from Turkey since the 1930s. Since then, nothi

  8. Berlin State Library opens exhibition to mark 350th anniversary (03.03.2011)

    To mark its 350th anniversary, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is opening the special exhibition "A library makes history. 350 years of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin". For ten weeks, it will be presenting top items from its collections at nine stations. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian C

  9. Workshop on the exhibition concept for the non-European collections at the Humboldt Forum successfully concluded (08.04.2011)

    The International Advisory Board Humboldt Forum met for the first time from 6 to 8 April 2011. The expert committee consists of around forty renowned museum experts and academics from all continents. Its purpose is to provide critical support for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's exhibitio

  10. Agreement to the Sphinx of Hattusha (13.05.2011)

    The German-Turkish expert talks on the Hittite Sphinx were concluded today in Berlin. It has been agreed that the fragmentary sculpture, which is over three thousand years old and has been in the Pergamon Museum on Berlin's Museum Island since 1934, will be handed over to Turkey as a gesture of Germ