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  1. 200 years of Museum Island Berlin: SPK celebrates a unique place of world culture for five years (18.12.2024)

    Gold hat and Nefertiti, Cleopatra and Caspar David Friedrich, Canova and Pergamon. The curved façade of the Bode Museum, the temple of the Alte Nationalgalerie, the resurrected Neues Museum and the idyllic Kolonnadenhof. The Museum Island is one of Berlin's main attractions and one of the world's to

  2. What the SPK museums have planned for the coming year Press conference on the 2026 programme preview (17.11.2025)

    From Constantin Brancusi to Verner Panton, from Genghis Khan to Paul Cassirer, from the discovery of community to heavy material - this is the spectrum of exhibition highlights with which the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library and the State Institute for Music Research hope to attr

  3. Outstanding late Gothic Madonna figure acquired for Berlin sculpture collection (25.05.2009)

    With the support of the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz recently acquired a "Mother of God Enthroned" for the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. We invite you to the ceremonial handover in the Basilica of

  4. Launch of a German-Russian research project on the losses of Russian museums during the Second World War (08.03.2012)

    A large-scale German-Russian research project on the loss of valuable works of art and cultural artefacts from Russian museums during the Second World War has been launched under the title "Russian Museums in the Second World War". The project partners are delighted to have received funding from the

  5. Violist Sara Kim wins the Mendelssohn Prize at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2015 (19.01.2015)

    The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition in Berlin ended with an impressive concert on Sunday. The first prize winners of this year's competition in viola, trumpet and clarinet played accompanied by the symphony orchestra of the Orchesterzentrum NRW under the direction of Garry Walker.

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Smithsonian Institution launch German-American exchange programme on provenance research (18.10.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI, Washington, USA), two of the world's largest museum complexes and research institutions, are launching a project to systematically network German and American provenance researchers. The three-year "German-American

  7. Ancient Palmyra in 360° and 3D (26.02.2019)

    A 360° film created in collaboration with the Museum of the Ancient Near East shows ancient Palmyra in a historically accurate digital reconstruction. The VR project was produced by ZDF/Terra X and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation The UNESCO World Heritage Site Palmyra gained sad notoriety

  8. Return of the Berlin Benin bronzes (25.08.2022)

    Ownership of all Berlin "Benin Bronzes" transferred to Nigeria - around a third of the works remain on loan in Berlin - further collaboration planned Today Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director General of the National Commissio

  9. The refurbishment of the Berggruen Museum begins (07.09.2023)

    The visitor magnet in Berlin-Charlottenburg is being expanded into a modern museum. Meanwhile, the museum is on a successful world tour in Japan and China Berlin. The entire museum has been closed to visitors for just under a year due to the need to completely renovate the Stülerbau West, the head b

  10. 100 years, European and not a bit secret (10.06.2024)

    Centenary of the opening of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Dahlem - Ceremony with words of welcome from Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth and Minister President Reiner Haseloff - Online access to the cross-foundation archive portal archive.spk-berlin.de In 2024,