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  1. Milestone for a new cultural forum: berlin modern celebrates topping-out ceremony (17.10.2025)

    Shell of the extension to the Neue Nationalgalerie largely completed - Minister of State for Culture Weimer, SPK President Ackermann and Director Biesenbach emphasise the new building's charisma and importance for the collections of 20th century art The topping-out crown now hovers over berlin moder

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. A house that is open to everyone cannot, by its very nature, be small (30.03.2026)

    On 9 February 2024, the foundation stone was laid at the Kulturforum for the building that is set to complete the Kulturforum, bring together the collections of the Neue Nationalgalerie and set new standards for museums in the 21st century: berlin modern

  5. A house that is open to everyone cannot, by its very nature, be small (30.03.2026)

    On 9 February 2024, the foundation stone was laid at the Kulturforum for the building that is set to complete the Kulturforum, bring together the collections of the Neue Nationalgalerie and set new standards for museums in the 21st century: berlin modern

  6. Two works from the Kupferstichkabinett restituted (08.10.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today restituted two drawings from the holdings of the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The provenance of the sheets had been examined as part of a systematic provenance research project. They turned out to have formerly belonged t

  7. Islam debate: Museums want to help overcome fears (07.07.2016)

    The Museum of Islamic Art of the National Museums in Berlin and the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony want to place the cultural diversity of Islam at the centre of their work - interview in the new SPK magazine with Nanette J. Snoep and Stefan Weber In their work, the Museum of Islamic Art o

  8. "museum4punkt0": Sub-project Explain, understand and participate in research in museums (08.05.2017)

    "museum4punkt0 - Digital strategies for the museum of the future" starts today. The Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz is involved with the sub-project "Explaining, understanding and participating in museum research". The Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz (SMNG) is the second largest

  9. 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

  10. Henrietta Lidchi becomes the new director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art (11.12.2025)

    Henrietta Lidchi will be the new Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art as well as Director of the Collections in the Humboldt Forum from May 2026. She succeeds Lars-Christian Koch, who has moved to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony. Henrietta Lidchi studied Anthr