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  1. New centre for provenance research and investigation established (15.11.2007)

    On 1 January 2008, the newly founded Office for Provenance Research at the Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin will begin its work. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: "This step has been necessary for a long time. I am delighted

  2. Relaunch of the website of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (28.08.2013)

    The completely redesigned and updated website of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de) went online today. The launch marks an important step towards improving the Foundation's public image. The SPK's tasks and activities are now more tangible than ever before:

  3. A work by Menzel believed lost has returned to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (15.04.2014)

    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

  4. Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage 2014 published (26.01.2016)

    The 50th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook has just been published, looking back on the year 2014. Internal and external authors address topics that concern the Foundation in numerous articles. In 2014, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie underwent a multi-year refurbishm

  5. Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio on five evenings in the Gemäldegalerie (08.12.2016)

    A very special Christmas experience: in five concerts between 25 December 2016 and 6 January 2017, the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin presents Bach's Christmas Oratorio in dialogue with paintings from its collection and works of modern music. The six cantatas of the Christmas Orator

  6. Foundation Board sets course for management positions at the National Museums in Berlin (25.11.2020)

    Directorate of the Gemäldegalerie to be re-advertised - Management of the Nationalgalerie to be divided into three positions - Grütters and Parzinger thank Michael Eissenhauer On 23 November 2020, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Cu

  7. The Design Lab at the Kunstgewerbemuseum: a platform for contemporary design (22.02.2023)

    The series supported by the Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz comes to an end this Thursday with a final event - the opening of the building at the Kulturforum remains a central theme After four years, the "Design Lab" discussion and lecture series at the Kunstgewerbemuseum ends this Thursday with

  8. German museums and exhibition centres once again very well attended in 2015 - Total number of visits to museums increased by 2.2 per cent year-on-year to 114,423,192 - A total of 9,025 special exhibitions in German museums (19.12.2016)

    The visitor figures for museums are published in the overall statistical survey of museums and exhibition centres in the Federal Republic of Germany. This has been published annually since 1981 by the Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin Prussian Cultural Heritage in co-op

  9. Acquisition of the century for the Berlin State Library: Alexander von Humboldt's American travel diaries (04.03.2014)

    With today's ceremony, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is celebrating the arrival of Alexander von Humboldt's American Travel Diaries at the Berlin State Library in the presence of Klaus Wowereit, Governing Mayor of Berlin, Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture, and Johanna Wanka,

  10. Foundation Board has decided: Dr Achim Bonte becomes the new Director General of the Berlin State Library - Prof. Dr Rebecca Wolf takes over the State Institute for Music Research (24.03.2021)

    Dr Achim Bonte is to become the new Director General of the Berlin State Library. This was decided unanimously by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today, Wednesday. Bonte succeeds Barbara Schneider-Kempf, who is retiring after seventeen years at the helm of Germany'