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  1. A small temple for the Pergamon Museum (03.05.2019)

    Topping-out ceremony on the Museum Island Berlin Berlin. On 3 May, the topping-out ceremony for construction phase A of the basic refurbishment and extension of the Pergamon Museum was celebrated on Berlin's Museum Island. With the construction of a new staircase and the completion of the illuminate

  2. Udo Kittelmann leaves the Nationalgalerie at his own request on 31 October 2020 (21.08.2019)

    Director headed the five-hall network for twelve years - SPK and SMB regret the move - Parzinger: His work will endure because he has made the Nationalgalerie a global player The Director of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Udo Kittelmann , will not be extending his contract,

  3. Memorial service for Erich Marx (09.09.2021)

    One year ago, the collector Erich Marx died at the age of 99. Around 200 invited guests honoured the great collector and patron today at a memorial service at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, the museum whose creation and success Erich Marx had significantly supported with the

  4. Foundation Board has decided: Dr Achim Bonte becomes the new Director General of the Berlin State Library - Prof. Dr Rebecca Wolf takes over the State Institute for Music Research (24.03.2021)

    Dr Achim Bonte is to become the new Director General of the Berlin State Library. This was decided unanimously by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today, Wednesday. Bonte succeeds Barbara Schneider-Kempf, who is retiring after seventeen years at the helm of Germany'

  5. Continuation of the collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and SPK in the field of provenance research (20.02.2025)

    Creating structures for a young field of research - sharing knowledge worldwide. Collaboration, innovation and sustainability are at the centre of the renewed partnership for provenance research on Asian art The National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institut

  6. Opening of the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection (10.07.2008)

    A new highlight enriches Berlin's cultural life: the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, which is being shown under the name "Surreal Worlds" in the eastern Stüler Building opposite the Museum Berggruen and Charlottenburg Palace. The "Dieter Scharf Collection in Memory of Otto Gerstenberg Foundation" has

  7. "German-Russian Library Initiative": First concrete projects to jointly research and make accessible book collections from German and Russian libraries that were relocated as a result of the war. (06.10.2009)

    On 23 September 2009, on the initiative of the Rudomino Library for Foreign Literature and the Berlin State Library, German and Russian librarians met in Moscow for a round table discussion in order to strengthen professional cooperation and exchange between German and Russian libraries and also to

  8. Ten years UNESCO World Heritage Site Museum Island Berlin (09.03.2010)

    Museum Island Berlin has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site for ten years. On 10 March 2000, the then UNESCO Secretary-General Koïchiro Matsuura presented the certificate of inclusion of the Museum Island in the World Heritage List to the Governing Mayor of Berlin and the President of the Prussian Cu

  9. Second issue of the SPK magazine, which has won international awards, has been published (30.06.2010)

    The SPK magazine, first published in autumn 2009, is now in its second issue. second issue. The current issue focusses on the topic "Future". The first magazine won prizes in two of the most important international competitions in the public relations and corporate communications sector. At the "Int

  10. Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin to the Executive Council of the World Digital Library (WDL) (25.06.2010)

    On Wednesday, representatives of the 91 institutions currently participating in the World Digital Library (WDL) elected their Executive Council in Washington. Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, is one of the seven members who will in future define the guidel