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SPK will return two mummified heads (Toi moko) of tattooed Māori men from the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum to New Zealand. In 2003, the government of New Zealand mandated that the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa repatriate Māori human remains to New Zealand. Hermann Parzinger, Pr

SPOT // berlin art sessions is a new series of events starting in mid-July, in which DJ sessions are held exclusively at the museums and filmed. The video files are available for download worldwide. The SPK and its Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) bring you SPOT, organized jo

Digital toolbox and inspiration. In the course of digitization, other museums benefit from the diverse experience gained through collaborative work The pandemic and its consequences in daily life are acting as a magnifying glass that highlights the challenges of digitization. Institutions of all kin

museum4punkt0 Contact for General Enquiries If you have a general question or do not know your contact person at the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), please contact the reception. Zentrale +49 30 266 41 2884 Email

Next planning step initiated – First soil tests for the building site at the Kulturforum. The first vehicles and machines could recently be seen on the Kulturforum building site, where the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century) will be built. The first visible building measure, soi

On November 14, 2019, the Budget Committee of the Bundestag approved the funds for a new building in the Kulturforum. The planned budget for the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century) of the Nationalgalerie (National Gallery) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in

Anyone who is objectively involved with the work of museums in Germany knows that they go to great effort to disclose their holdings and create transparency. For the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK), the debate on the object biographies in African colle

Around 250,000 more visits to the Staatliche Museen in 2018 – from now on, the SPK institutions are offering more service across the board in the form of longer opening hours, new spaces, and digital transformation. The number of visits to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin)

museum4punkt0 is the name of a recently launched, cross-institutional “ideas laboratory“ for digital applications in museums. We spoke about it with Markus Hilgert, manager of the project and director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. What are your expectations of t

Video artist Theo Eshetu has been following the move of the Dahlem museums into the Humboldt-Forum for a documentary film he is making. At documenta 14, he is showing Atlas Fractured, an expansive installation that projects video onto a banner which originally hung over the entrance to the Dahlem mu