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  1. 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

  2. "4plus - Children in the Museum": Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and FRÖBEL kindergartens launch new project for early childhood education (17.05.2023)

    Children between the ages of four and six are at the centre of a new educational project entitled "4plus - Children in the Museum", in which the National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Foundation want to work together with Berlin's FRÖBEL kindergartens in the long term. "4plus - Children

  3. SPK returns antique vases to Italy and receives long-term loans (13.06.2024)

    Closing date: 13.06.2024, 2.30 pm SPK restitutes 25 objects from the Collection of Classical Antiquities with dubious provenance to Italy - Contract signed with Minister of State for Culture Roth and Italian Minister of Culture Sangiuliano in Berlin - Parzinger: Restitution agreement intensifies coo

  4. "museum4punkt0": Joint virtual space with kosmosdigital Humboldt Forum sub-project (08.05.2017)

    "museum4punkt0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future" starts today. Humboldt Forum Kultur GmbH is involved with the sub-project "kosmosdigital Humboldt Forum". Humboldt Forum Kultur GmbH was founded in 2016 to prepare the cultural operations of the Humboldt Forum on behalf of the Humbold

  5. The 'foreigner' and me: migration and integration as an opportunity. An event in the Year of Science 2013 - The demographic opportunity (22.05.2013)

    "Das 'Fremde' und ich - Migration und Integration als Chance" - this is the title of a panel of experts discussing demographic change from different perspectives on 30 May 2013 from 12 noon at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities at Gendarmenmarkt. The joint event organised by t

  6. Repatriations from the Ethnological Museum: (02.12.2025)

    Foundation Board authorises Marion Ackermann to return objects with human remains to Ghana and to hold talks with Australian authorities about spiritual objects The Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin has four objects from Kpando in present-day Ghana with human remains attached to

  7. Annual press conference 2007 (23.01.2007)

    On 23 January 2007, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects, developments and exhibitions were also presented, reports were given on building projects and a review of 2006 was give

  8. South Seas department of the Ethnological Museum in Dahlem closed from tomorrow due to urgent safety measures (19.12.2007)

    From tomorrow, the South Sea Department of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin (Museen Dahlem) will have to be closed for an estimated two months due to extremely urgent construction work. The reason for this is the recent discovery of structural damage to the concrete pillars,

  9. Hermann Parzinger on the donation by Heiner Bastian (06.10.2016)

    On the surprising news that the Heiner Bastian family will donate the house Bastian am Kupfergraben to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, waiving any compensation and without conditions, says Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK: "We are really surprised! You don't receive such a generous

  10. Masterpieces of the world at a click - The bpk picture agency offers a highly professional service for media, business and science (18.02.2015)

    With today's launch of the new image portal of the picture agency bpk www.bpk-images.de, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is making a unique pool of high-quality images from the fields of art, culture and history available for commercial use. In the joint online shop of the world's most ren