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  1. Three domes for the colonnades (31.07.2009)

    By the end of the year, the colonnades and the colonnade courtyard between the Old National Gallery and the Neues Museum will be extensively repaired and restored. Three domes destroyed during the war, which crowned three "little temples" on the banks of the Spree within the eastern row of columns,

  2. Knowledge archives in dialogue with science and society (10.12.2010)

    Conference organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as part of the Berlin Year of Science 2010 "Berlin - Capital for Science" On 9 and 10 December 2010, the conference "Knowledge Archives in Dialogue with Science and Society" took place at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. As an institut

  3. Handing over the keys to the Friedrichshagen storage facility of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (30.06.2014)

    Today the keys were handed over for the first building at the SPK's new storage location, the Friedrichshagen storage magazine. In attendance were Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Günter Winands, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner fo

  4. New Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage published (16.05.2014)

    The recently published, comprehensive 48th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook looks back on 2012, the year in which both the new General Reading Room of the State Library in the Unter den Linden building and the Archaeological Centre were completed. Also documented are the openings of

  5. Friedrich Christian Flick donates 104 works of contemporary art to the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (28.01.2015)

    To mark his 70th birthday, Friedrich Christian Flick has donated 104 works of contemporary art to the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. This is the second donation in just a few years. Flick had already donated 166 works to the museum in 2008. In addition to the d

  6. Islam debate, Russia, constitutional complaint: Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook 2015 published (31.01.2017)

    In the 51st volume of the yearbook, you can find out, among other things, how museums are challenged by the current debate about immigration and isolation - but also that a red ICE would sound louder than a green one, that we look at our mobile phones an average of 88 times a day, that Goethe alread

  7. Return from the Ethnological Museum to Native People in Alaska decided (18.12.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will return nine objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. The Board of Trustees today approved a corresponding proposal by the President. The artefacts are grave goods from Na

  8. New publication: Looting and Rescue - Russian Museums in the Second World War (07.11.2019)

    For the first time, Russian and German researchers have jointly analysed the wartime losses of Russian museums during the Second World War. The results are summarised in the recently published book "Raub und Rettung. Russian Museums in the Second World War", which uses detailed case studies to shed

  9. Lending in the SPK libraries possible again from 4 May (23.04.2020)

    The SPK's museums, libraries and archives have been closed to the public for more than a month. The first steps towards reopening will be taken from 4 May 2020: In the State Library, the Ibero-American Institute and the State Institute for Music Research, media can once again be collected and return

  10. Open for research - Academic work in the reading rooms of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation possible again from 22 June (17.06.2020)

    The SPK's libraries, archives and museums have been gradually resuming operations since the beginning of May. The pandemic ordinance of the state of Berlin now also makes it possible to open reading rooms to a limited extent. Media from the SPK libraries have been available to borrow again since May