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  1. Slight increase in visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 (16.12.2025)

    The Institute for Museum Research reports: 107.4 million visits to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 - museums show more special exhibitions again - data collected for zoos, animal parks and botanical gardens for the first time Museums and exhibition centres in Germany enjoyed a 1.3 percent inc

  2. Course set for the refurbishment of the State Library at the Kulturforum - start of preparatory measures (12.02.2026)

    Scharoun's listed architectural icon urgently needs to be renovated - redesigned into a modern, sustainable, user-friendly library - complex construction project with relocation of 5.4 million books The urgently needed basic refurbishment of the "Bücherschiff" at the Kulturforum can begin. The build

  3. SPK reform commission discusses decentralized organizational structures (04.02.2021)

    SPK President Parzinger: "This was a good day for our work on reform." At its meeting yesterday, the reform commission of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) addressed the situation of the state museums, in particular their internal organizational structure

  4. Iron Age exhibition opens in St Petersburg with objects from Berlin (10.11.2020)

    Some 1600 objects illustrate developments in the first millennium B.C. Almost half of them once belonged to the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, but owing to the war are now in Russian museums. The exhibition "Iron Age – Europe Without Borders" can be seen from November 11, 2020 to February 28, 2

  5. The SPK returns seven books to the descendants of Marc Bloch and Simonne Vidal (28.05.2026)

    Cultural property confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution: Three German cultural institutions return seven books to the descendants of Marc Bloch and Simonne Vidal – a ceremony was held at the French Embassy in Berlin At a formal ceremony held today at the French Embassy in Berlin, three German

  6. Sam Bardaouil und Till Fellrath named Directors of Hamburger Bahnhof (10.09.2021)

    The founders of the multidisciplinary curatorial platform Art Reoriented will jointly lead the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art – Berlin of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) as Directors from January 1, 2022 At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the

  7. Coming to the world differently: The Humboldt Forum in the palace. A workshop view (08.07.2009)

    The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin will be presenting concepts and methods for the Humboldt Forum on Berlin's Schlossplatz for the first time as future partners and stakeholders. As one

  8. The winners of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2014 (20.01.2014)

    The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2014 organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Rectors' Conference of German Music Universities and the Berlin University of the Arts ended with an impressive concert on Sunday. At the weekend, the winners of this year's Felix

  9. A glittering start to the year: Germany's oldest classical music competition takes place again in January (18.12.2014)

    Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2015 organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Rectors' Conference of German Music Universities and the Berlin University of the Arts The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2015 will be held in the fields of viola,

  10. Humboldt Lab Cabs - A journey into knowledge (26.08.2015)

    Climb into a Chinese rickshaw and find out more about the new Berlin Palace: Humboldt Lab Dahlem launches the "Humboldt Lab Cabs" at the Long Night of Museums on 29 August 2015 With the new Humboldt Lab Cabs, the Humboldt Lab Dahlem will familiarise citizens - but of course also visitors to the city