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  1. "Don't call me...": Joint Initiative Against Racism (10.05.2021)

    To mark Germany's Diversity Day on May 18, 2021, rbb, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are taking a visible stand against racism by projecting a social video series on the facade of the James Simon Gallery. Every day, people in Berlin and Brandenburg experie

  2. Discussions Regarding Benin Bronzes in Nigeria (21.05.2021)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) took part in a visit to Nigeria organized by the German Foreign Office from May 17 to 21. He made the following statement on the discussions held there concerning the Benin Bronzes: "Our st

  3. Growing interest in museums and exhibition centres in Germany: over 113 million visits in 2007 (06.10.2008)

    The Institute for Museum Research at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz has completed and analysed the statistical survey of visitor numbers to museums in the Federal Republic of Germany for 2007. Museums in Germany had a total of 107,303,946 visits in 2007. Compared to 2006, t

  4. Three domes for the colonnades (31.07.2009)

    By the end of the year, the colonnades and the colonnade courtyard between the Old National Gallery and the Neues Museum will be extensively repaired and restored. Three domes destroyed during the war, which crowned three "little temples" on the banks of the Spree within the eastern row of columns,

  5. Knowledge archives in dialogue with science and society (10.12.2010)

    Conference organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as part of the Berlin Year of Science 2010 "Berlin - Capital for Science" On 9 and 10 December 2010, the conference "Knowledge Archives in Dialogue with Science and Society" took place at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. As an institut

  6. Handing over the keys to the Friedrichshagen storage facility of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (30.06.2014)

    Today the keys were handed over for the first building at the SPK's new storage location, the Friedrichshagen storage magazine. In attendance were Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Günter Winands, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner fo

  7. New Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage published (16.05.2014)

    The recently published, comprehensive 48th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook looks back on 2012, the year in which both the new General Reading Room of the State Library in the Unter den Linden building and the Archaeological Centre were completed. Also documented are the openings of

  8. Friedrich Christian Flick donates 104 works of contemporary art to the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (28.01.2015)

    To mark his 70th birthday, Friedrich Christian Flick has donated 104 works of contemporary art to the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. This is the second donation in just a few years. Flick had already donated 166 works to the museum in 2008. In addition to the d

  9. Islam debate, Russia, constitutional complaint: Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook 2015 published (31.01.2017)

    In the 51st volume of the yearbook, you can find out, among other things, how museums are challenged by the current debate about immigration and isolation - but also that a red ICE would sound louder than a green one, that we look at our mobile phones an average of 88 times a day, that Goethe alread

  10. Return from the Ethnological Museum to Native People in Alaska decided (18.12.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will return nine objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. The Board of Trustees today approved a corresponding proposal by the President. The artefacts are grave goods from Na