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  1. Acquisitions and Donations

    Acquisitions and Donations Acquisitions, indefinite loans, and donations enrich the holdings of the Foundation. All of the collections are continually supplemented in this way. The SPK ensures that the provenance of every new object is clarified. Eine der wichtigsten Schenkungen: Die Büste der Nofre

  2. SPK begins research into the origins of human remains in a historical collection from West Africa (14.09.2021)

    The provenance of human skulls from what was German West Africa is being investigated in a three-year joint research project at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte. It is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The collections of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschi

  3. Her Majesty on the Building Site (12.09.2022)

    Whenever she visited Berlin, Queen Elizabeth II showed an interest in the Staatliche Museen. In 2004, former SPK President Klaus-Dieter Lehmann gave the Queen a tour of Museumsinsel. By Klaus-Dieter Lehmann Riding in a wobbly construction hoist or taking the S-Bahn from Berlin to Potsdam is nothing

  4. Benin Bronzes: talks with the Nigerian delegation in Berlin (08.07.2021)

    On July 7, the guests toured the Humboldt Forum and on the next day they visited the storage facility in Dahlem containing objects from Benin. On a visit to Berlin, the Nigerian partners and Sir David Adjaye, the architect of the Edo State Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) being built in Benin Cit

  5. Planting event with artist Ben Wagin (19.04.2021)

    The Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Berlin-based performance artist Ben Wagin commemorate an art intervention from 1976 with the planting of three trees in the outdoor space of the Neue Nationalgalerie. In 1976, performance artist Ben Wagin planted two black pines at the Neue

  6. Construction Gets Under Way: A Sanchi Gate for the Humboldt Forum (18.11.2022)

    On November 17, 2022, construction work began on a replica of the magnificent eastern gateway of Sanchi in front of the Humboldt Forum. On the Lustgarten side of the Humboldt Forum, construction is currently under way on a replica of the magnificent eastern gate of Sanchi. Situated at a spot clearly

  7. Korean Cultural Center in Germany to support Museum für Asiatische Kunst (16.12.2021)

    The Korean Cultural Center in Germany and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz have signed an agreement that includes funding for a curator's position. The focus lies on research into the Korean collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The funds will go to

  8. Lost Work by Eduard Gaertner Returns to Kupferstichkabinett (24.03.2022)

    Work by Eduard Gaertner back in the Kupferstichkabinett: Believed lost in wartime, but recognized at auction; donated to the museum by its prospective seller. Eduard Gaertner’s Der Leipziger Platz in Berlin (1862) has recently been returned to the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings).

  9. Gerhard Richter: over a hundred works coming to Berlin (15.03.2021)

    Gerhard Richter, one of the most influential artists of our time, is providing the Nationalgalerie (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) with a diverse group of more than a hundred works for the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts at the Kulturforum. The main work involved in this long-term partnership is the four-

  10. German-American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP) for Museum Professionals, 2017–2019

    German-American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP) for Museum Professionals, 2017–2019 The German/American exchange program PREP was set up jointly by the SPK and the Smithsonian Institution. Its purpose was to create a strategic network of provenance researchers in museums in both countrie