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  1. Milestone for a new cultural forum: berlin modern celebrates topping-out ceremony (17.10.2025)

    Shell of the extension to the Neue Nationalgalerie largely completed - Minister of State for Culture Weimer, SPK President Ackermann and Director Biesenbach emphasise the new building's charisma and importance for the collections of 20th century art The topping-out crown now hovers over berlin moder

  2. National research project ILLICID aims to investigate illegal trade in cultural property in Germany (04.03.2015)

    The illegal trade in cultural property in Germany is the focus of the new ILLICID research project. Over the next three years, this dark field will be analysed in detail. According to international organisations, profits from the illegal trade in cultural goods are an important pillar of organised c

  3. "museum4punkt0" starts: Ideas lab for digital applications in German museums (08.05.2017)

    Today sees the launch of "museum4punkt0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future", one of the most visionary projects in the German museum landscape. In a joint virtual experimental space, the project partners are exploring the possibilities and opportunities offered by the latest digital t

  4. Online portal makes provenance research on the Rudolf Mosse Collection accessible / New acquisitions for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (02.05.2018)

    The collection of the Berlin publisher and patron of the arts Rudolf Mosse (1843-1920) comprised thousands of paintings, sculptures, artefacts, books and antiques. Almost one hundred years after the death of the Jewish art collector, more is now known about them than ever before and they have been p

  5. Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation recovers valuable artefacts that belong in the Gothic House (25.05.2018)

    In Wörlitz, SPK President Hermann Parzinger hands over 21 objects that were in the possession of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin's Museum of Decorative Arts as external property The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has returned 21 artefacts to the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation that were pr

  6. Topping-out ceremony in Friedrichshagen (24.04.2023)

    Depot location of the National Museums in Berlin takes shape Berlin. In Berlin-Friedrichshagen, under the direction of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) and on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), a multifunctional depot building is being built for the

  7. Thinking plants: 4A_Lab Academy sheds light on interdependencies between humans and plants (30.10.2024)

    From 4 to 8 November 2024, the 4A_Lab invites you to the interdisciplinary academy "Ecological Entanglements across Collections - Plant Lives and Beyond" in Berlin. In dialogue with researchers, experts and an interested audience, ways of thinking about plant and non-human life forms will be examine

  8. 50 years of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: a great success story (24.07.2007)

    On 25 July 1957, the law on the establishment of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation was passed by the German Bundestag. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, emphasised: "The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) is a great success story. Th

  9. Papyrus collection presents 6000 documents from ancient Egypt in an online database (02.05.2012)

    As part of a digitisation project, the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin will make 6,000 texts available in an online database by autumn 2013. The project is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It offers ancient history scholars as well as the

  10. Foundation Board clears the way for the return of the Ngonnso' to Cameroon (27.06.2022)

    Parzinger: Object is regarded by the Nso' as a mother deity and has great spiritual significance for the society of origin At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz authorised SPK President Hermann Parzinger to conclude an agreement with the relevant autho