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  1. Parzinger on the corona crisis: All institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will suspend their public operations from Saturday (14 March 2020) until further notice (12.03.2020)

    The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, explains the corona crisis: "The spread of the corona virus has also had a profound impact on Berlin's cultural life. The warnings of the medical profession to ensure that social contacts are reduced to an absolute minimu

  2. Altes Museum and Bode Museum reopen on Tuesdays from 3 June (14.05.2025)

    The Altes Museum and the Bode-Museum will reopen on Tuesdays from 3 June 2025. This extension of services will be accompanied by an adjustment to the admission price in both museums: In future, the house ticket will cost 14 euros instead of 12 euros in each case, as in the other houses on Museum Isl

  3. Cultural heritage strengthens Europe - Berlin Appeal of the European Cultural Heritage Summit (22.06.2018)

    The importance of cultural heritage for the future of Europe is to be strengthened. To this end, the organisers of the European Cultural Heritage Summit formulated the "Berlin Call to Action" and presented it today in Berlin after the topic was discussed in high-profile panels. Renowned public and p

  4. The KEK celebrates its anniversary! 10 years of coordinated original preservation in Germany (10.03.2021)

    In 2011, the Coordination Centre for the Preservation of the Written Cultural Heritage (KEK) was founded as a federal States project and located at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. It is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) and the t

  5. Museum Berggruen on exhibition tour - refurbishment of the Stüler Building until 2025 (07.07.2022)

    The Museum Berggruen goes travelling: Exhibition tour of important masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne and Klee to Japan, China and Paris - Closure of the Berlin museum from 5 September 2022 - Reopening planned for 2025 after major refurbishment The Museum Berggruen is going on tour with an ex

  6. Results of provenance research on skulls from German East Africa published (18.01.2023)

    Parzinger: We are ready for immediate return and are waiting for signals from the countries of origin In a project launched in 2017, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin) worked with scientis

  7. ZEDIKUM digitisation project on Berlin's Museum Island: archaeological objects in 3D (19.05.2016)

    The German Centre for Digital Cultural Assets in Museums (ZEDIKUM) has firmly established itself on Berlin's Museum Island in the first six months of its existence. The interdisciplinary research and service facility, which is based at the Museum of the Ancient Near East of the National Museums in B

  8. Agreement between the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the heirs of the Mosse family on sculpture confiscated as a result of persecution (01.12.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned the sculpture "Susanna" by Reinhold Begas to the heirs of Felicia Lachmann-Mosse. The work will initially remain on loan to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It is currently on display in the rotunda on the second exhibition floor of the Alte N

  9. Federal government funds Arab-German research cooperation with an additional 3.3 million euros (13.11.2018)

    Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin heads the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) with a

  10. Nocturnal chamber concert 'Notturno' in the Gemäldegalerie on 2 November A DSO ensemble plays chamber music from duo to quintet (25.10.2018)

    The concert series 'Notturno', organised by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), will start its new season on 2 November. In the first nocturnal chamber concert of the 2018|2019 season, a DSO ensemble will present works b