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  1. “Back-ups” in plaster (30.03.2026)

    On 18 July 2024, a ceremony was held at the plaster casting workshop of the Berlin State Museums, attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Guatemala, H.E. Jorge Alfredo Lemcke Arevalo, to mark the handover of two replicas to the Guatemalan Museo Comunitario Yalambojoch. The plaster casts of obj

  2. Another significant increase in the number of visits to German museums - over 112 million museum visits in 2012 (16.12.2013)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 112,807,633 museum visits in 2012. This represents an increase of 2.9 per cent compared to 2011 and is the highest number of visits since the survey of visit figures began in 1981. These figures have now been published in the overall statistical survey of museu

  3. Restitution of a drawing by Jakob Philipp Hackert from the Kupferstichkabinett (30.04.2019)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns the drawing to the heirs of the previous Jewish owner - the work was sold in 1939 in an emergency situation - English version: please find PDF below German text - Yesterday, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation handed over the ink brush drawing "Auf

  4. Cost and planning certainty: ground-breaking ceremony for the Nationalgalerie's Museum of the 20th Century this autumn (17.09.2019)

    Parzinger: Great opportunity for the Kulturforum - Thanks to Minister of State for Culture Grütters, Federal Minister of Finance Scholz and the budget holders of the Bundestag: "Path of clarity taken" - Herzog: Museum will be the centrepiece of the Kulturforum The ground-breaking ceremony for the Na

  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. The Nuba photographs and films in Leni Riefenstahl's estate: scholars from Germany and Sudan conduct joint research - symposium in Berlin (23.10.2024)

    In 2018, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation received the estate of the filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) as a gift. The holdings were divided up within the SPK according to academic expertise: Written material - Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Department of Manuscripts and H

  7. Restitution of a lost painting to the SPK (23.09.2025)

    On 23 September, the Belgian House of Representatives returned a painting by Friedrich Nerly to the SPK. It belonged to the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and was previously considered a loss as a result of the Second World War The painting "SS. Giovanni e

  8. What the SPK museums have planned for the coming year Press conference on the 2026 programme preview (17.11.2025)

    From Constantin Brancusi to Verner Panton, from Genghis Khan to Paul Cassirer, from the discovery of community to heavy material - this is the spectrum of exhibition highlights with which the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library and the State Institute for Music Research hope to attr

  9. Philipp Demandt becomes new director of the Alte Nationalgalerie (11.10.2011)

    The art historian Philipp Demandt will take over as director of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz on 2 January 2012. Philipp Demandt, born in 1971, studied art history, classical archaeology and journalism and completed his doctorate in 2001 at th

  10. Deutsche Post's "Nefertiti" and "Ishtar Gate" special stamps to be presented at the Neues Museum today (28.01.2013)

    The two special postage stamps "Nefertiti" and "Ishtar Gate" were issued at the beginning of the year as part of Deutsche Post's "Treasures from German museums" series. They show two outstanding archaeological objects from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection and the Museum of the Ancient Near