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  1. Ground-breaking ceremony for the Museum of the 20th Century (03.12.2019)

    The ground-breaking ceremony for the Nationalgalerie's Museum of the 20th Century took place today in the presence of Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture, and Michael Müller, Governing Mayor of Berlin. The event on the construction site of the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Strasse is a milesto

  2. Iron Age - Europe without borders (10.11.2020)

    On 10 November 2020, the exhibition "Iron Age - Europe without Borders" opens at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Around 1600 objects from the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage and the three Russian partner museums will provi

  3. Restitution of books from the State Library to Le Figaro (10.03.2022)

    SPK returns books confiscated during the Second World War to the French daily newspaper Le Figaro - Ceremonial handover at the embassy Today at the French Embassy in Berlin, the Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Achim Bonte, returned 33 books to representatives of the French newspa

  4. Germany-wide study: museums enjoy the highest level of trust (19.04.2024)

    SPK Institute for Museum Research publishes the first population-representative study on trust in museums in Germany Museums enjoy the highest level of trust in Germany. This is the conclusion of a study by the Institute for Museum Research. According to the study, museums in particular have the pot

  5. Provenance research is followed by mediation: Project to research human remains from West Africa is extended (04.07.2024)

    Provenance of historical skull collection researched - funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media enables mediation in West Africa Over a period of three years, researchers from the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin have been workin

  6. SPK has returned human remains to Australia (05.12.2024)

    Human remains that were in the collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin were returned to Australia today, 5 December 2024. Together with the Australian Embassy, the Ethnological Museum organised a memorial service for the ancestors, who are now travelling home. They w

  7. Will Priam's Treasure Soon Be Shown on Museum Island? (28.06.2021)

    Future relations with Russia — are politics and culture going separate ways? That was the subject of a discussion with Michael Kretschmer, Marion Ackermann and Hermann Parzinger on June 10, 2021. Text The evening panel discussion was hosted by SPK President Hermann Parzinger and State Secretary Conr

  8. Rebirth of an icon of western modernism - handing over the keys to the Neue Nationalgalerie (29.04.2021)

    Now that the upper exhibition hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie at Berlin's Kulturforum has been restored to its former glory since December 2020, the keys to the completely renovated building will be handed over to the National Museums in Berlin and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation on 29 Ap

  9. Berlin State Library restitutes 13 volumes to the Jewish Community of Vienna (04.12.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today restituted 13 volumes from the holdings of the Berlin State Library to the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG Vienna). The volumes in question were published between 1840 and 1914. Four volumes were formerly owned by the Jewish Community, the other ni

  10. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes works of art from the collection of the great Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse (12.02.2015)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted eight works of art to the heirs of Felicia Lachmann-Mosse. The works were part of the extensive art collection that her father, the Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse, had built up since the 1880s. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation had come