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  1. German museums and exhibition centres still very well attended in 2017 - total number of museum visits increased by 2.2% year-on-year to 114,375,732 (14.12.2018)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 114,375,732 visits in 2017. Compared to 2016, the number of visits is therefore 2,498,647 (+2.2%) higher than in the previous year (2016: 111,877,085 visits). German museums reported a total of 8,765 special exhibitions. The number of visits varied depending on

  2. Haus Bastian on Berlin's Museum Island is being officially handed over to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today. From the summer, forward-looking educational concepts of the National Museums in Berlin will be developed and trialled there. (12.03.2019)

    During the ceremonial handover of the keys, Foundation President Hermann Parzinger and Director General Michael Eissenhauer thanked Céline, Heiner and Aeneas Bastian for their extraordinarily generous gift. The building on Kupfergraben, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, has been dedicated t

  3. museum4punkt0: digital technologies open up new worlds of experience in museums (31.10.2018)

    Virtually penetrating the forest floor or travelling across the moon, experiencing carnival all year round or discovering the hidden sides of paintings: The "museum4punkt0" project, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) with 15 million euros, is developing dig

  4. Inés de Castro will not be Collection Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art (13.02.2018)

    SPK President Parzinger regrets cancellation - We will soon present a new collection director Inés de Castro, Director of the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, will not become Director of the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin in the Humboldt

  5. The Museum Berggruen is becoming more active, more diverse and more independent / The Berggruen family will support the Museum Berggruen with one million euros a year from 2025 (10.09.2021)

    The Museum Berggruen of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which belongs to the SPK, will significantly expand its programme work and gain greater independence for this purpose. In order to make this possible, the Berggruen family will support the museum with one million euros a year once the refurbis

  6. Tina Brüderlin takes over the management of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin (13.10.2021)

    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

  7. Berlin Egyptian Museum becomes project partner in the establishment of the Akhenaten Museum near Amarna (19.11.2019)

    Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin committed to establishing the Akhenaten Museum in el-Minja - Parzinger signs corresponding memorandum and welcomes support from the Federal Government's Museum Agency Since 2002, the Akhenaten Museum (Akhenaten Museum) has been

  8. Museum of Prehistory and Early History receives "finds" from the ruins of the former Museum of Decorative Arts (today: Martin-Gropius-Bau) in Stresemannstraße (11.04.2022)

    The West Berlin painter Peter Grämer had dug through the ruins in the 1960s - his widow Christine Weber has now handed over 1500 objects, mainly ceramics, but also bronze, iron and stone. The Martin-Gropius-Bau, which is so well-known in Berlin today and was long used as a museum of arts and crafts,

  9. SPK Board of Trustees: Dr Sibylle Hoiman appointed new Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin (06.12.2022)

    Dr Sibylle Hoiman will be the new Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts at the National Museums in Berlin. This was decided by the SPK Foundation Board at its meeting on 5 December 2022. The art historian, who currently heads the Architectural Art Archive at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, su

  10. Institute for Museum Research reports visit figures for museums in Germany in the first coronavirus year 2020 (17.12.2021)

    Corona-related changes: Visitor numbers slumped as expected - creative potential unleashed, also in the digital world 33.6 million visits to German museums: 70% fewer than in the previous year The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 33,550,296 visits in 2020. This is a good two-t