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  1. On the way to a vibrant research campus (04.07.2019)

    Potential analysis of the Dahlem museum site presented: Campus axis, bundling of research resources, specialised library The museum complex in Berlin-Dahlem is to be expanded into a research campus in the coming years. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the National Museums in Berlin have

  2. The SPK and the World

    The SPK and the World In her column “The SPK and the World”, Marion Ackermann writes about the Foundation of Prussian Cultural Heritage’s international collaborations, encounters and outlooks. In her column “The SPK and the World”, SPK President Marion Ackermann writes about international encounters

  3. Two boxes from Leipzig - objects lost since the Second World War return to Berlin (06.02.2012)

    Forty-four objects of late antique Byzantine everyday culture were recently identified in Leipzig as belonging to the Berlin Museum of Byzantine Art and are now returning to the Bode Museum. The pieces had been transported to the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War and were mistakenly

  4. Change in the office of Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Director of the Nationalgalerie (31.10.2008)

    The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, and the President of the Foundation, Prof Dr Hermann Parzinger, today bid farewell to Prof Dr Peter-Klaus Schuster as Director General of the National Museums in Berlin an

  5. On the death of Stephan Waetzoldt (28.05.2008)

    Prof. Dr Stephan Waetzoldt died on 25 May 2008 at the age of 88. He was General Director of the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz from 1965 to 1983. With foresight and skill, he turned the museums in West Berlin, scarred by the division of the city and its collections, back into a cornersto

  6. Database, capacity building, dark field research: how the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation supports the protection of cultural property in Syria (01.06.2016)

    On the occasion of the International Meeting of Experts on the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Syria, which is taking place from 2 to 4 June 2016 at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says: "If one day the guns fall s

  7. Mourning for Adriaan von Müller (01.12.2021)

    Prof. Dr Adriaan von Müller, long-time director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin, passed away on 28 November 2021 at the age of 93. Born in Berlin in 1928, he began working at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History after completing his doctorate at

  8. Iron Age - Europe without borders (10.11.2020)

    On 10 November 2020, the exhibition "Iron Age - Europe without Borders" opens at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Around 1600 objects from the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage and the three Russian partner museums will provi

  9. Continuation of the basic refurbishment of the Pergamonmuseum - closure of the building from October 2023 (27.03.2023)

    Basic refurbishment continues in the south wing - museums remain open despite closure Berlin. The Pergamon Museum on Museum Island Berlin will be completely closed to visitors from 23 October 2023. This step is necessary so that the basic refurbishment as part of the "Museum Island Masterplan" can c

  10. New Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and new Director of the Nationalgalerie elected (18.12.2007)

    The Board of Trustees today unanimously elected Dr Michael Eissenhauer as the future Director General of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK). On 1 November 2008, he will succeed Prof. Dr Peter-Klaus Schuster, who will retire at the end of October 2008. The Bo