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  1. New Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and new Director of the Nationalgalerie elected (18.12.2007)

    The Board of Trustees today unanimously elected Dr Michael Eissenhauer as the future Director General of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK). On 1 November 2008, he will succeed Prof. Dr Peter-Klaus Schuster, who will retire at the end of October 2008. The Bo

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation acquires high-calibre collection of East Asian lacquer art (02.12.2008)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently acquired Klaus F. Naumann's lacquer collection for the Museum of Asian Art. It comprises 55 high-ranking East Asian lacquer works that exemplify a central art genre of Japan, the Ryūkyū Islands and China. At its core is Japanese lacquer art, which i

  3. The James-Simon-Galerie will open on 12 July 2019 - in the presence of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (26.03.2019)

    Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel will officially open the new James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin's Museum Island on 12 July. An action day of the National Museums in Berlin is then planned for 13 July. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says: "With her commitment t

  4. En vogue: "Notturno" chamber concert at the Kunstgewerbemuseum on 27 November Works by Nielsen and Glasunow at the House of Art, Fashion and Design (24.11.2015)

    On 27 November, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will open the sixth season of their joint chamber concert series "Notturno" at the Museum of Decorative Arts. The delightful combination of a night-time concert with musicians from the DSO and a gu

  5. Intensification of bilateral science. Opening of the exhibition "Bronze Age - Europe without Borders" in Moscow (08.10.2013)

    On 15 October 2013, the exhibition "Bronze Age - Europe without Borders" will open at the State Historical Museum in Moscow. The exhibition, which was previously shown in St. Petersburg and opened there by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Vladimir Putin, is a joint project of the Hermit

  6. Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Naryshkin meets SPK President Parzinger at the end of the Year of the Cross (02.07.2013)

    As part of his visit to Berlin to mark the end of the cross year Russia Year in Germany / Germany Year in Russia, the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey E. Naryshkin, in his capacity as Chairman of the Russian Historical Society, visited the President of the Prussian Cultura

  7. Speech by Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (05.03.2009)

    - The spoken word prevails - Salutation, The Neues Museum has been restored, that is a reason for great joy and it is like a miracle! Severely damaged by bombing during the Second World War, completely destroyed in parts and left as a ruin, exposed to wind and weather for many decades - and now it s

  8. Gift from the Bode descendants for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (18.10.2006)

    One day after the grand opening of the Bode Museum, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin received a special gift today: Wilhelm von Bode's great-grandchildren from Germany and Switzerland presented General Director Peter-Klaus Schuster with a small majolica jug from the early Renaissance at the Bode Muse

  9. Starting signal for the refurbishment and extension of the Pergamonmuseum (27.02.2006)

    With a unanimous decision by the representatives of the federal government and the state of Berlin on the board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the future design of the Pergamon Museum, the visitor guidance and the presentation of the collections have now been finalised, including the

  10. "Merovingian period - Europe without borders" opens in St Petersburg (19.06.2007)

    The exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders. Archaeology and History of the 5th to 8th Centuries" opens today in St Petersburg. St. Petersburg, where it will be on show until 16 August, is the second stop for the exhibition, which was already shown with great success from 13 March to