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  1. “Back-ups” in plaster (30.03.2026)

    On 18 July 2024, a ceremony was held at the plaster casting workshop of the Berlin State Museums, attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Guatemala, H.E. Jorge Alfredo Lemcke Arevalo, to mark the handover of two replicas to the Guatemalan Museo Comunitario Yalambojoch. The plaster casts of obj

  2. German-Russian working group prepares exhibition of looted art (07.04.2006)

    Today sees the end of a working session lasting several days at the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History to prepare the German-Russian exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders", which will also show artefacts relocated from Berlin to Russia as a result of the war. Following a

  3. First exhibition of the bust of Nefertiti 100 years ago (27.03.2024)

    On 1 April 1924, the colourful bust of Queen Nefertiti was presented to a wider public for the first time in a museum setting, in a newly designed section of the permanent exhibition of the Egyptian Collection in the Neues Museum. The bust was found in Tell-el-Amarna in 1912 as part of a scientific

  4. Intensification of the long-term collaboration with the Marx Collection and strengthening of the "Hamburger Bahnhof" brand agreed (13.07.2007)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the collector Erich Marx have now reached supplementary and selective new agreements as a sustainable basis for the future-oriented work of the "Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart". Accordingly, the Marx Collection will be curated exclusively by th

  5. Humboldt Lab Cabs - A journey into knowledge (26.08.2015)

    Climb into a Chinese rickshaw and find out more about the new Berlin Palace: Humboldt Lab Dahlem launches the "Humboldt Lab Cabs" at the Long Night of Museums on 29 August 2015 With the new Humboldt Lab Cabs, the Humboldt Lab Dahlem will familiarise citizens - but of course also visitors to the city

  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. Working shifts between two worlds (26.03.2026)

    200 years of Museum Island: German-British artist Michael Müller is exhibiting his monumental painting “Dioscuri: The Gifted Day” at the Neues Museum, in which he combines abstract painting with Greek mythology, retelling the ancient discourse on mortality and love in his own unique way.

  8. Working shifts between two worlds (26.03.2026)

    200 years of Museum Island: German-British artist Michael Müller is exhibiting his monumental painting “Dioscuri: The Gifted Day” at the Neues Museum, in which he combines abstract painting with Greek mythology, retelling the ancient discourse on mortality and love in his own unique way.

  9. SPK - The magazine shows the new centre of Berlin (20.06.2018)

    Humboldt Forum, James-Simon-Galerie, the interim building for the Pergamon Museum, Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden, debates about the Bauakademie: the centre of Berlin is changing. A new magazine looks at the present and future of the historically evolved centre. Under the new title "SPK - Das Mag

  10. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation turns fifty (24.07.2007)

    25 July 2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the German Bundestag's resolution on the law establishing the Foundation. It contains regulations on the transfer of art and cultural assets (archive, library and museum holdings as well as scientific collections) and the associated properties, which we