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  1. Annual press conference 2009 (28.01.2009)

    On 28 January 2009, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects, developments and exhibitions were also presented, reports were given on building projects and a balance sheet for 2012

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation receives the Innovation Award of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry for the Museum Island (17.11.2009)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, accepted the 2009 Innovation Award from Klaus Laepple, President of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry, at the Tourism Summit yesterday evening. The Foundation received the award for its highly publicised

  3. Annual press conference 2015 (28.01.2015)

    At its annual press conference today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its plans for the coming year. Together with the directors of the five institutions, Hermann Parzinger took stock of 2014 and provided information on new projects, developments and exhibitions.

  4. History to go: Secret State Archives PK will in future offer an "archive case" for school pupils (05.09.2017)

    In order to familiarise pupils from year 9 onwards with the handling of historical source material, the Secret State Archives PK has developed an "archive case" with written examples from different eras in a three-year cooperation with the "Schule an der Haveldüne" in Berlin-Spandau. From September,

  5. First prize for the Neue Nationalgalerie - basic refurbishment has been honoured by the Association of German Architects (25.01.2022)

    The basic refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie has been awarded first prize by the BDA Berlin (Association of German Architects). This was announced yesterday by the BDA. The interdisciplinary jury particularly praised the "refurbishment carried out with masterful precision and an almost invisi

  6. "Where does the future begin?" Annual Report 2022 shows external perspectives on the SPK (09.08.2023)

    The new annual report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has been published. It looks back on the important events of 2022 - such as the securing of the Rieckhallen, the discovery of a Rembrandt, restitutions such as the Benin bronzes, the opening of the museums in the Humboldt Forum and t

  7. 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

  8. German museums and exhibition centres remain extremely popular - almost 116 million visits in 2013 (18.12.2014)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 110,425,002 visits in 2013. This is the second-highest number of visits since the first complete survey began in 1981. Only in the previous year 2012 was the figure slightly higher (2.1 per cent). The 8,942 special exhibitions organised by German museums contri

  9. The central reception building on Berlin's Museum Island has been completed (13.12.2018)

    The ceremonial handover of the keys will take place today (12 noon) in the James-Simon-Galerie in the presence of the Minister of State for Culture, Monika Grütters, and the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior, Building and Community, Marco Wanderwitz. The building

  10. Restitution and purchase of the sculpture "Resting Woman" by Fritz Huf (28.03.2022)

    SPK restitutes sculpture by Fritz Huf to the heiress of Hans (Jean) Fürstenberg - SPSG purchases work for the park of Schönhausen Palace On 5 April 2022, the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) will hand over the bronze sculpture "Resting Woman", creat