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The World Heritage Site on Museum Island has a hidden history. This includes a garden laid out in the mid-18th century by the philosopher and art historian Johann Georg Sulzer, who turned it into a place for reflection on artistic beauty and a meeting place for the Berlin Enlightenment. A search for

The World Heritage Site on Museum Island has a hidden history. This includes a garden laid out in the mid-18th century by the philosopher and art historian Johann Georg Sulzer, who turned it into a place for reflection on artistic beauty and a meeting place for the Berlin Enlightenment. A search for

With the construction of the high colonnades, the new entrance building to the Museum Island is visibly taking shape. The topping-out wreath was hoisted over the shell at midday today (13 April 2016). In the presence of Federal Building Minister Barbara Hendricks, Minister of State for Culture Monik

On 11 February 2022, the SPK will hand over the human remains of 32 individuals to representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). These have been in the care of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin since 2011. At the end of 2021, the SPK Board of Trustees

On 26 June 2025 in Paris, five German cultural institutions handed over 221 books to the descendants of the well-known French lawyer, journalist and politician Henry Torrès (1891-1966). The books had belonged to Torrès or one of his two wives. They could be attributed to them based on the dedication

Ceremony at the family seat Schloss Tegel / Parzinger: educational reformer and founding father of the Museum Island To mark the 250th anniversary of Wilhelm von Humboldt's birth, the Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Founding Di

In the courtyard of Café Felix in the Stabi unter den Linden, the SPK summer interview series entered its next round: Achim Bonte, Director General of the Berlin State Library, discusses what defines libraries in the 21st century and why the foundation reform will not result in a museum network with

In the courtyard of Café Felix in the Stabi unter den Linden, the SPK summer interview series entered its next round: Achim Bonte, Director General of the Berlin State Library, discusses what defines libraries in the 21st century and why the foundation reform will not result in a museum network with

Students from Berlin and Freiburg have won this year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The prizewinners' concert will take place on Sunday at the Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt. This year's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prize for violin wa

Special funds from the Coordination Centre for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage (KEK) are once again being used to support projects at the SPK: The Geheime Staatsarchiv PK will restore and digitise the estate of the architect Franz Schwechten. The Berlin State Library is continuing the