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  1. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes four works by Munch and Kirchner to the heirs of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (30.11.2012)

    Following extensive historical research, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the heirs of Prof Dr Curt Glaser have agreed on the return of four works from the former collection of Prof Dr Curt Glaser to his heirs. Prof Dr Curt Glaser, a medical doctor, prominent art historian, art critic,

  2. Found in the United States: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recovers Egyptian stele that had been lost since the Second World War (30.05.2017)

    Valuable faience stele resurfaced in Michigan after seventy years during research work / Parzinger thanks American museum for great gesture A valuable Egyptian object that recently returned to Berlin can be seen again in the Neues Museum on Museum Island from mid-June. The upper part of a faience st

  3. Federal government funds Arab-German research cooperation with 15 million euros until 2025 (30.01.2020)

    Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin heads the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) with

  4. 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

  5. Decision in favour of new management of the art library (04.12.2006)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, today unanimously appointed Dr Moritz Wullen, currently Director of Exhibitions at the Nationalgalerie Berlin, as Director of the Art Library. He will succeed Prof. Dr Bernd Ev

  6. Sculpture in the National Gallery that was thought to have been lost during the war is found again (05.12.2011)

    A 19th-century sculpture that had been thought lost since the end of the war has been found on the grounds of the American Academy in Berlin-Wannsee. It is owned by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and is part of the collection of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin. In 2

  7. "Merovingian period - Europe without borders. Archaeology and history of the 5th to 8th centuries". Exhibition opening with looted artefacts in Russia (09.03.2007)

    On Monday, 12 March 2007, the joint exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders" by the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the Berlin State Museums, the Pushkin State Museum Moscow, the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg and the State Historical Museum Moscow will be opened at

  8. Museum Island receives temporary exhibition building "Pergamonmuseum. The Panorama" (09.11.2016)

    In order to be able to offer visitors to Berlin's Museum Island an attractive programme during the renovation of the Pergamon Museum, the SPK is erecting a temporary exhibition building. It will be built directly opposite the Museum Island on Kupfergraben and next to the railway line. Visitors will

  9. New appointments to the Board of Trustees: Alexis von Poser becomes Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin (04.07.2019)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, unanimously decided on Tuesday that Dr Alexis von Poser should take over the position of Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art. The Ethnologi

  10. “Being Human Means Political Struggle” (25.06.2026)

    Does the true cradle of the liberal world order lie in Latin America? And why is that order more threatened today than ever? An interview with Pulitzer Prize winner and Yale historian Greg Grandin, who was a guest at the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) in Berlin. The rules-based order, international