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For the first time in over thirty years, a major exhibition will be dedicated to the furniture designer, Bauhaus member and Burg teacher Erich Dieckmann (1896-1944), which will be on show in Halle (Saale) and Berlin in 2022. Dieckmann, who became known for his type furniture programmes, worked in We

The Ethnological Museum with its two locations in the Humboldt Forum and in Dahlem will have a new director from mid-January The current Director of the Ethnological Collection of the Museum Natur und Mensch in Freiburg, Tina Brüderlin, will in future head the Ethnological Museum of the National Mus

On Friday 20 January, the SPK returned a statuette of a 16th century Maria Lactans (Nursing Mother of God) to the heirs of the Jewish banker and entrepreneur Jakob Goldschmidt. The work had been acquired in 1936 for the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (then: Königliche Museen

Closing date: 13.06.2024, 2.30 pm SPK restitutes 25 objects from the Collection of Classical Antiquities with dubious provenance to Italy - Contract signed with Minister of State for Culture Roth and Italian Minister of Culture Sangiuliano in Berlin - Parzinger: Restitution agreement intensifies coo

Donald Trump wants to reinterpret American history by decree The President of the SPK, Hermann Parzinger , and his designated successor, Marion Ackermann , have sharply criticized the US President's announcement that he intends to influence museums in order to influence representations of American h

As part of the exhibition and event project "Utopia Kulturforum", the St Matthew's Foundation, the Art Library, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the New National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library, the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation and the Ibero-American Institute

With the "Vogel Phoenix", a richly illustrated reader, the SPK is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a look "from the outside" at the variety of themes and projects. Companions from the world of cultural policy, colleagues in the arts and sciences, in museums and libraries, friends and patrons, a

The Berggruen Museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg is to be extended according to the plans of architects Kuehn Malvezzi. This was announced today as the result of a selection process. The extension is linked to over seventy high-calibre long-term loans that the Berggruen family is making available to th

The "Forum Transregionale Studien" was founded on 16 October 2009 at the official residence of the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. It is based on a recommendation by the Berlin Science Commission, which sees this type of study as a special opportunity to raise Berlin's intern

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) recently returned a late medieval alabaster relief to the heiress of its former owner Harry Fuld Junior, the Magen David Adom UK (MDAUK), the English funding organisation of the Israeli aid organisation Red Star of David. However, the work, which was t