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  1. Opening of the Humboldt Box (29.06.2011)

    The new information centre on Schlossplatz presents the concepts of the National Museums in Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Berlin Central and State Library for the Humboldt Forum. The Humboldt Box is a temporary landmark: with changing exhibitions and events, it accompanies the conce

  2. Cost and planning certainty: ground-breaking ceremony for the Nationalgalerie's Museum of the 20th Century this autumn (17.09.2019)

    Parzinger: Great opportunity for the Kulturforum - Thanks to Minister of State for Culture Grütters, Federal Minister of Finance Scholz and the budget holders of the Bundestag: "Path of clarity taken" - Herzog: Museum will be the centrepiece of the Kulturforum The ground-breaking ceremony for the Na

  3. Continuation of the basic refurbishment of the Pergamonmuseum - closure of the building from October 2023 (27.03.2023)

    Basic refurbishment continues in the south wing - museums remain open despite closure Berlin. The Pergamon Museum on Museum Island Berlin will be completely closed to visitors from 23 October 2023. This step is necessary so that the basic refurbishment as part of the "Museum Island Masterplan" can c

  4. SPK returns human remains and grave goods to Hawai'i (11.04.2023)

    A few days ago, the SPK handed over four iwi kūpuna (human remains of Hawaiian descent) and seven moepū (grave goods) to Hui Iwi Kuamo'o, an organisation of Hawaiian First Nations representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). The human remains had been in the care of the Museum of Prehistory an

  5. Milestone reached in the refurbishment of the Pergamon Museum (04.12.2025)

    First construction phase structurally completed - Collection of Classical Antiquities, Museum of Islamic Art and Museum of the Ancient Near East furnish rooms - reopening in spring 2027 Construction work on the first phase of the Pergamon Museum will be completed at the end of the year. They include

  6. American Independence Day – SPK programme highlight (29.06.2026)

    Press invitation: ‘We the People’ – a programme initiative to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence 4 July 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. To mark this occasion, the institutions of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritag

  7. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation turns fifty (24.07.2007)

    25 July 2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the German Bundestag's resolution on the law establishing the Foundation. It contains regulations on the transfer of art and cultural assets (archive, library and museum holdings as well as scientific collections) and the associated properties, which we

  8. The Neues Museum restored after more than 60 years - A jewel of the Museum Island regained (05.03.2009)

    Today, the renovated Neues Museum will be handed over to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation at a symbolic key handover ceremony in the presence of the Federal Minister of Building Wolfgang Tiefensee, the Governing Mayor Klaus Wowereit, the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and the P

  9. Over 150 masterpieces of traditional Japanese art from the Klaus F. Naumann Collection for the Berlin Museum of Asian Art: donation and purchase (02.04.2009)

    The Museum of Asian Art at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is today receiving the most important donation of traditional Japanese art in around a hundred years in a festive ceremony. Klaus F. Naumann, a native of Berlin who lives in Tokyo, is giving the museum more than one hundred works, including

  10. 1500 masterpieces for the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art (10.06.2009)

    Today, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is signing a contract at the Pergamonmuseum for an extensive permanent loan of the de Unger Collection. The collector Edmund de Unger is represented by his lawyer and his son Richard de Unger. Edmund de Unger's collect