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  1. Launch of online portal: Collections from Colonial Contexts (30.11.2021)

    Run by the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, the portal offers an initial content of around 8,000 entries for collection items that come from a colonial context. The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) has opened the online portal "Collections from Colonial Contexts" for public use at

  2. Foundation stone laid for berlin modern (09.02.2024)

    The foundation stone for berlin modern at the Kulturforum was laid on 9 February 2024 in the presence of Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth and the Governing Mayor of Berlin Kai Wegner. Other speakers included Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Danyal

  3. 2019 visitor numbers for museums in Germany (18.01.2021)

    Figures reported to the Institut für Museumsforschung at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin amount to around 111.6 million visits during 2019. This corresponds to the high levels of previous years. Some 5,000 museums and 350 exhibition venues took part in the comprehensive statistical survey in 2019. T

  4. Vaccinations at the Museum: Pop-Up Vaccination Center at the Kulturforum (18.01.2022)

    Vaccines save lives – and culture. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will be offering vaccinations at the Kulturforum museum foyer from January 20 to 23, 2022. The SPK will be partnering with Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH to host a four-day pop-up vaccination center at the Kulturforum (Matthäikirchplatz).

  5. SPK, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Nationalgalerie mourn the loss of Heiner Pietzsch (08.09.2021)

    Collector and patron Heiner Pietzsch has died at the age of 91 - Parzinger: A great friend of the Nationalgalerie and pioneer of the museum for the 20th century Heiner Pietzsch, the well-known Berlin entrepreneur and great patron of the arts, is dead. He died on Tuesday evening in a Berlin clinic at

  6. Priorities of the SPK in 2025 (13.03.2025)

    Annual reception at the James-Simon-Galerie - Parzinger: New funding agreement is recognition of reform - Outstanding visitor balance 2024 - Attractive exhibition programme this year - Expansion of international collaborations Over 200 guests from politics, culture, science, business, tourism and so

  7. Guelph Treasure Art Restitution Lawsuit: SPK Appeals U.S. District Court Decision (21.04.2017)

    The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has recently decided on the admissibility of a lawsuit seeking restitution of the "Guelph Treasure". SPK appeals the decision. The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, or SPK) and the Federal Republic of Germany were n

  8. Vidya Shah Emotion - Music - Emotion: Feeling Music. Classical Indian singing at the Bode Museum (06.10.2008)

    An event "On the way to the Humboldt Forum" Concert on 10 October 2008, 7 pm Venue: Basilica of the Bode Museum, Museum Island Berlin Admission free Organiser: Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Greetings: Hermann Parzinger , President of the Prussia

  9. International conference on Nazi-looted art (11.12.2008)

    To mark the tenth anniversary of the "Principles of the Washington Conference with Respect to Nazi-Confiscated Art", the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste are organising an international symposium today and tomorrow entitled "Taking Responsibility.

  10. More space for books, newspapers and photos - foundation stone laid for SPK's storage magazine in Berlin-Friedrichshagen (02.09.2009)

    Today, in the presence of Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel, Head of Department at the BKM, and Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Building, the foundation stone is laid for the storage centre of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in the Friedrichshagen district of Be