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A ceremony was held today at the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to prepare the mummified heads (Toi moko) of two tattooed Māori heads for their repatriation to New Zealand. Two toi moko from the Ethnological Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin return to New Zealand. T

Organs, wind instruments and iPads: Christian Breternitz's apprenticeship and years of travel in the fascinating and diverse world of musical instruments. The instrument expert is the new research associate at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum of the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung. By Julia Spin

The burning questions of 2020 virtually under discussion: pandemic experience, communication formats, and digitization strategies In the course of the project, the regular group meetings of museum4punkt0 have proven to be an important format for exchanging thoughts in person among the partner instit

SPK will return two mummified heads (Toi moko) of tattooed Māori men from the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum to New Zealand. In 2003, the government of New Zealand mandated that the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa repatriate Māori human remains to New Zealand. Hermann Parzinger, Pr

SPOT // berlin art sessions is a new series of events starting in mid-July, in which DJ sessions are held exclusively at the museums and filmed. The video files are available for download worldwide. The SPK and its Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) bring you SPOT, organized jo

Digital toolbox and inspiration. In the course of digitization, other museums benefit from the diverse experience gained through collaborative work The pandemic and its consequences in daily life are acting as a magnifying glass that highlights the challenges of digitization. Institutions of all kin

Next planning step initiated – First soil tests for the building site at the Kulturforum. The first vehicles and machines could recently be seen on the Kulturforum building site, where the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century) will be built. The first visible building measure, soi

On November 14, 2019, the Budget Committee of the Bundestag approved the funds for a new building in the Kulturforum. The planned budget for the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century) of the Nationalgalerie (National Gallery) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in

Anyone who is objectively involved with the work of museums in Germany knows that they go to great effort to disclose their holdings and create transparency. For the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK), the debate on the object biographies in African colle

Around 250,000 more visits to the Staatliche Museen in 2018 – from now on, the SPK institutions are offering more service across the board in the form of longer opening hours, new spaces, and digital transformation. The number of visits to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin)