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  1. Ancient Palmyra in 360° and 3D (26.02.2019)

    A 360° film created in collaboration with the Museum of the Ancient Near East shows ancient Palmyra in a historically accurate digital reconstruction. The VR project was produced by ZDF/Terra X and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation The UNESCO World Heritage Site Palmyra gained sad notoriety

  2. Philipp Demandt becomes new director of the Alte Nationalgalerie (11.10.2011)

    The art historian Philipp Demandt will take over as director of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz on 2 January 2012. Philipp Demandt, born in 1971, studied art history, classical archaeology and journalism and completed his doctorate in 2001 at th

  3. German-American exchange programme for provenance research: Apply now for 2018! (15.06.2017)

    The German-American Exchange Programme for Provenance Research has been running since the beginning of 2017. The three-year programme is aimed at provenance researchers, curators, archivists and other museum professionals. Interested parties can apply for the 2018 intake until 15 September 2017. The

  4. First meeting of the SPK International Advisory Board in Berlin (20.03.2026)

    On 18 March, the International Advisory Board of the SPK met to agree on fundamental principles of cooperation and key topics. SPK President Marion Ackermann welcomed the members in Berlin The International Advisory Board will advise and support the SPK’s management on key social and cultural policy

  5. Dr des. Andrea Schlosser receives Ernst Waldschmidt Prize of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation / Award honours outstanding academic achievements in the field of Indology (02.12.2014)

    Dr des. Andrea Schlosser was awarded this year's Ernst Waldschmidt Prize for her dissertation "On the Bodhisattva Path in Gandhāra. Edition of Fragment 4 and 11 from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts". The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation a

  6. Personnel changes on the Board of Trustees: Reinhard Altenhöner joins the State Library - Michael Eissenhauer also takes over the Picture Gallery - Contract with Udo Kittelmann extended (25.06.2015)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, today unanimously made far-reaching personnel decisions for the Berlin State Library and the National Museums in Berlin. Reinhard Altenhöner has been appointed Permanent Depu

  7. Lost Etruscan warrior statuette returned to the Collection of Classical Antiquities (28.02.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recovered a valuable Etruscan bronze statuette that was thought to have been lost since the Second World War. The depiction of a spear-throwing man with a helmet, which had been part of the antiquities collection since 1869, was recently identified in th

  8. Pop-up vaccination centre at the Kulturforum (18.01.2022)

    From 20 to 23 January 2022, vaccinations will take place in the foyer of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the Kulturforum. Vaccination protects - including culture. That's why the SPK and Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH will be setting up a pop-up vaccination centre at the Kulturforum (Matthäikirchplatz

  9. 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

  10. "Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977" by Joseph Beuys will be presented in Berlin in future - as a new permanent loan from Erich Marx to the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (24.02.2015)

    The world-famous environment "Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977" by Joseph Beuys, which is considered one of his key works, is coming to Berlin. The collector Erich Marx is donating the work to the collection of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin as a permanent loan. The complex spatial