Search

Search

  1. Acquisition history of the Berlin Troy Collection - Heinrich Schliemann's files are conserved - Funded by the Coordination Centre for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage (KEK) (28.07.2021)

    The Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin will be conserving the files of the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890). The documents on the complex acquisition history of the famous Troy collection will thus be secured for the long term. The project is being

  2. From 15 January 2024: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation adjusts admission prices for museums (13.12.2023)

    SPK President Parzinger: We have to react to the increased costs - museum visits should nevertheless remain affordable in international comparison - free admission for visitors aged 18 and under - Museum Sunday to remain The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will make moderate adjustments to adm

  3. Federal President Steinmeier and Minister of State for Culture Roth open the exhibition "From Odesa to Berlin. European Painting from the 16th to 19th Century" in the Gemäldegalerie (23.01.2025)

    Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth, together with the Ukrainian Minister of Culture Mykola Tochytskyi, are today opening the exhibition "From Odesa to Berlin. European Painting of the 16th to 19th Centuries" in the Picture Gallery of the Prussian

  4. Inés de Castro will not be Collection Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art (13.02.2018)

    SPK President Parzinger regrets cancellation - We will soon present a new collection director Inés de Castro, Director of the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, will not become Director of the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin in the Humboldt

  5. Books restituted to the descendants of the French politician Georges Mandel (15.07.2022)

    Restitution from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and SLUB Dresden - Heirs of Georges Mandel receive books in Paris - Minister of State for Culture Roth: "Keeping the memory of the victims alive" The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) have

  6. Hermann Parzinger elected member of the British Academy (10.08.2010)

    Hermann Parzinger, prehistorian, archaeologist and President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, was recently elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Hermann Parzinger says: "I am certain that my membership of the British Academy will further strengthen the profile of the

  7. Handing over the keys to the Friedrichshagen storage facility of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (30.06.2014)

    Today the keys were handed over for the first building at the SPK's new storage location, the Friedrichshagen storage magazine. In attendance were Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Günter Winands, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner fo

  8. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns archives to the Diksmuide City Archives (Belgium) (06.06.2014)

    On Monday, 9 June 2014, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, will hand over 17 archive boxes containing valuable late medieval and early modern documents to the Diksmuide City Archives. The archival documents were discovered during a re-cataloguing of the docume

  9. Art in Berlin vaccination centres (04.06.2021)

    Since the beginning of June, large posters of works of art from the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage have been hanging in the six Berlin vaccination centres. The motifs originate from the campaign to open up the museums and were specially adapted for the centres. Dilek Kalayci

  10. BMFTR Approves Final Phase of the International Centre for Advanced Studies MECILA (19.03.2026)

    Since 2017, Mecila, the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America has been conducting research with funding from the Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR). The project, involving institutions from Germany, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, will no