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Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is celebrating the topping-out ceremony for the extension and remodelling of the Berggruen Museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In summer 2012, this home of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin will be reopened with around one thousand s

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) has set up an advisory committee to support the planning of the Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum in Berlin - in agreement with the Chair of the Foundation Council, Minister of State Monika Grütters. This goes back to a suggestion made by t

Actress Meike Droste meets the former head curator of the cuneiform collection at the Museum of the Ancient Near East, Joachim Marzahn To mark its 200th birthday, Berlin's Museum Island is being given a "home base", which will be located in the basement of the James-Simon-Galerie. Visitors can come

The National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the art patron Yousef Jameel recently signed a contract to finance the digitisation, cataloguing and virtual preparation of large parts of the Museum of Islamic Art's collection. The generous funding from Yousef Jameel w

A few days ago, the gouache "Ash Wednesday Morning" by Adolph von Menzel was returned to Berlin. The work had been considered lost since the Second World War. A few years ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation became aware of its whereabouts in the Lithuanian Art Museum in Vilnius. In the co

Stefan Simon, Director of the Rathgen Research Laboratory at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, is the first SPK employee to be awarded a Distinguished Research Chair by the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Programme. In the academic year 2024-2025, Simon will work on his research project "Cultural Heritage and

At the end of 2025, the Director of the Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Prof Dr Andreas Scholl, will retire after more than twenty years in office. He will be succeeded by his current deputy, Dr Martin Maischberger. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foun

Hermann Parzinger firmly rejects the criticism levelled in recent days at the plans to relocate the Gemäldegalerie and the Nationalgalerie, which have been described as a "castling". The following points explain the reasons for the plans to relocate the Gemäldegalerie and construct a new building, a

Workshops, guided tours behind the scenes, science slam: For the first time, there will be an opportunity to get to know the newly designated location - Location: Dahlem Research Campus, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin Over the next few years, the Dahlem Research Campus will be established at the Dahlem

The "200 Years of Museum Island Berlin" anniversary starts with a special programme from 30 May to 1 June - island day ticket for 14 euros / annual ticket valid for 2 people. Museum Island Berlin is kicking off its fifth anniversary year with a kick-off weekend centred around UNESCO World Heritage D