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  1. Restoration Day at the SPK on 19 October 2025 (30.09.2025)

    The European Restoration Day will take place for the eighth time on 19 October 2025. The SPK institutions will also be offering exclusive insights into studios and exhibitions Around 130 conservators work at the SPK to preserve the most valuable cultural assets - mostly behind the scenes. On Restora

  2. museum4punkt0: Try out & share digital mediation (24.06.2022)

    Projects for digital cultural mediation present prototypes and provide insights into project work - Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth: unique concept. The project partners of the museum4punkt0 joint project presented the applications they have been developing since 2017 at a showcase in Ber

  3. Parzinger honours Werner Knopp: A true president of unity (29.01.2016)

    The long-standing President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation celebrates his 85th birthday this Sunday - Born in Braunschweig, he headed Germany's largest cultural institution in Berlin for over twenty years On the occasion of his 85th birthday this Sunday (31 January), the President of t

  4. Exemplary partnership between SPK and Museums Association of Namibia enters next phase (23.05.2022)

    Objects travelling from Berlin to Namibia - long-term, collaborative research process with cultural heritage communities, artists and scientists 23 objects from the collection of the Ethnologisches Museum der Staatli-chen Museen zu Berlin will travel to Namibia on 27 May 2022 as part of the partners

  5. Deep mourning for Werner Knopp (07.01.2019)

    Long-time President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation passes away at the age of 87 - Parzinger: He was the President of Unity The long-standing President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Werner Knopp, passed away on 4 January 2019 at the age of 87. Born in Braunschweig, he ha

  6. Benin bronzes: Agreement for repatriation still in 2022 (28.06.2022)

    SPK President Parzinger: Objects should be returned to Nigeria "as quickly as possible" - Long-term loans at the Humboldt Forum An agreement on the transfer of ownership and loans for the so-called Benin bronzes in the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin is to be

  7. SPK co-operates with Moroccan museum foundation (15.01.2026)

    Marion Ackermann signs Memorandum of Understanding with Fondation Nationale des Musées in Rabat - collaboration planned for research, capacity building and exhibitions The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation intends to work more closely with Moroccan museums in the future. During a visit to Rabat

  8. Hermann Parzinger welcomes the increased number of research projects on provenance research and investigation (22.04.2009)

    Yesterday, the Advisory Board of the Provenance Research Centre at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation decided for the second time on applications for funding for long-term provenance research projects. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, said: "It is an

  9. By train and bus to the island: SPK x Flix (10.03.2026)

    The mobility partnership between SPK and Flix is extended: ten specially branded Flix buses advertise the 200th anniversary of the Museum Island Berlin - special giveaways for customers At the start of the celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of Museum Island Berlin, the mobility provider Flix

  10. Argentine LELOIR Prize for Barbara Göbel, Director of the Ibero-American Institute (20.04.2022)

    On 19 April 2022, the RAICES and LELOIR prizes were awarded in Buenos Aires to four Argentinian and three international scholars. Barbara Göbel, Director of the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), is one of this year's winners of the LELOIR Prize. The P