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  1. Alarming reports of illicit excavations around the world: conference in Berlin seeks ways to curb the illegal trade in antiquities (12.12.2014)

    The international conference "Cultural Property in Danger: Looted Excavations and Illegal Trade" ended on Friday in Berlin with an urgent appeal to curb illegal excavations and the associated systematic destruction of cultural treasures from human history worldwide. Speakers from all over the world

  2. Berliner Sparkasse funding secures programmes for children and young people from Ukraine until the end of 2025 (23.02.2024)

    Welcome! Museum Club for children and young people from Ukraine at Haus Bastian, the centre for cultural education on Museum Island, can continue its successful work. Free project days and holiday programmes have also been added to the programme. Since 2022, the SPK has established a new format for

  3. In the lens of the enemy. The German photojournalists in occupied Warsaw 1939-1945 (27.04.2009)

    From 28 April to 3 June 2009, the Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus e.V. is showing an exhibition to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War with the German invasion of Poland. An exhibition organised by the House of Encounters with History (Dom Spotkán z. Historia),

  4. Press release and invitation: 10 years of German-Russian museum dialogue - ceremony and colloquium on 16 and 17 November in Berlin (06.11.2015)

    10 years of the German-Russian Museum Dialogue (DRMD): around two hundred directors and curators of Russian and German museums affected by war-related losses will meet in Berlin on 16 and 17 November to deepen their long-standing cooperation and discuss new projects. We cordially invite you to the f

  5. ZEDIKUM digitisation project on Berlin's Museum Island: archaeological objects in 3D (19.05.2016)

    The German Centre for Digital Cultural Assets in Museums (ZEDIKUM) has firmly established itself on Berlin's Museum Island in the first six months of its existence. The interdisciplinary research and service facility, which is based at the Museum of the Ancient Near East of the National Museums in B

  6. 23 objects restituted by the SPK form the centrepiece of an exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Namibia (11.04.2024)

    Exhibition as the result of a long-term, collaborative research process with cultural heritage communities, artists and academics - retransfer officially signed On 11 April 2024, a large-scale exhibition will open at the National Art Gallery of Namibia in Windhoek, focusing on 23 objects that were f

  7. On the purchase of the Hamburg railway station and the Rieckhallen (15.11.2022)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments on the purchase of the Hamburg railway station and the associated Rieckhallen by the Federal Government and the State of Berlin: "What news: a great moment in cultural policy! It's great that the federal government a

  8. Federal budget strengthens SPK (11.09.2024)

    Parzinger: Federal Government significantly strengthens the SPK - thanks to Claudia Roth The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will be significantly strengthened in the 2025 federal budget. SPK President Hermann Parzinger thanked Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth and her organisation: "

  9. More visitors, longer opening hours, new rooms (09.04.2019)

    The five institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will offer more service at all levels in future In future, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will present itself in its museums in an even more visitor-friendly and service-orientated way. For example, the foyer of the Kultur

  10. Topping-out ceremony for the extension and remodelling of the Berggruen Museum of the Berlin National Gallery (20.09.2011)

    Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is celebrating the topping-out ceremony for the extension and remodelling of the Berggruen Museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In summer 2012, this home of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin will be reopened with around one thousand s