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  1. Berliner Antike-Kolleg

    Berliner Antike-Kolleg Berlin was once and is now again a center for studies of antiquity. The Antike-Kolleg takes up this tradition. Specialists in nearly every region and period of the cultures of the ancient world do their research here. The Berliner Antike-Kolleg (Berlin College of Ancient Studi

  2. 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

  3. Priorities of the SPK in 2024 (10.04.2024)

    Annual reception at the James-Simon-Galerie - Parzinger: Outstanding visitor balance for 2023 - Attractive exhibition programme this year - Expansion of international collaborations - Reform on the home straight Over 200 guests from politics, culture, business, science and society attended the annua

  4. Nazi-looted art: SPK restitutes to Cassirer heirs (03.03.2025)

    SPK restitutes two works by Max Slevogt to the heirs of Bruno Cassirer and buys back both works. The painting "Portrait of Bruno Cassirer", the purchase of which was made possible by the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, will be exhibited in the Alte Nationalgalerie from 4 March 2025 The SPK has rest

  5. SPK Foundation Board appoints new director of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin (30.06.2021)

    On June 29, 2021, the Board of Trustees of the SPK filled an important management position at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. As the successor of Michael Eissenhauer as director of the Gemäldegalerie (Old Master Paintings), they selected Dr. Dagmar Hirschfelder, who currently heads the paintings an

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation acquires Alexander von Humboldt's "American Travel Diaries" (04.12.2013)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has acquired Alexander von Humboldt's American Travel Diaries. Written partly in German and partly in French during his great voyage of discovery through Central and South America between 1799 and 1804, these unique and internationally highly significant his

  7. Intensified fight against illegally trafficked cultural property from Iraq: ICOM Red List of Emergencies supports the work of investigating authorities - Minister of State Böhmer hands over clay tablet to Iraqi ambassador (14.01.2016)

    The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has drawn up an emergency red list for Iraq to alert law enforcement and customs authorities, as well as collectors and dealers worldwide, to illegally traded cultural artefacts from this country. Such red lists contain examples of object types and categor

  8. From 16 April 2024: New opening hours at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Musikinstrumenten-Museum - late openings in the summer months (04.03.2024)

    Parzinger: We want to react more flexibly to visitor flows in future The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will change the opening hours of the National Museums in Berlin and the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research from 16 April 2024. SPK President Hermann Parzing

  9. Archaeology competence centre opposite Museum Island Berlin celebrates topping-out ceremony (22.09.2010)

    Today's topping-out ceremony for the new Archaeology Competence Centre in the presence of Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and Jan Mücke, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Building Ministry, marks a further s

  10. Construction progress on the federal government's largest cultural building site: First section of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz Unter den Linden has been handed over (18.04.2011)

    A few days ago, the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning handed over the first completed rooms in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's Unter den Linden building to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Over the next few weeks, the librarians will move into the rooms - vault storage, st