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  1. Museums are popular - and important economic location factors (12.12.2024)

    Another rise in visitor numbers to German museums and exhibition centres - And: ongoing study by the Institute for Museum Research shows that public funding invested in museums has doubled Museums and exhibition centres in Germany continue to enjoy increasing popularity. This is shown by the overall

  2. Bernhard Weisser appointed new director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin (05.12.2014)

    Prof. Dr Bernhard Weisser will become Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage on 1 June 2015. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foundation Board today. Weisser has been acting Director of the Coin Cabinet since the end of Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge

  3. Until 14 September: Season of the Kolonnaden Bar on Museum Island is extended (28.08.2025)

    Due to its great success and the good weather, SPK, the Berlin Vagabund brewery and visitBerlin want to run Berlin's most beautiful summer venue for a fortnight longer - Kolonnaden-Bar opens every Wednesday to Sunday from 2pm and 4pm to 10pm The Colonnade Bar is the summer hit par excellence! Due to

  4. Finally back! (23.09.2025)

    On September 23, the Belgian House of Representatives returned a painting by Friedrich Nerly to the SPK. It belonged to the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Old National Gallery of the Berlin State Museums) and had previously been considered a war loss. The

  5. Feasibility study commissioned to optimise Berlin's museum landscape (11.09.2012)

    The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger, the Director General Michael Eissenhauer and the 15 museum directors of the SMB, in particular the collection directors concerned, Udo Kittelmann and Bernd Lindemann, have decided on the further course of action regarding

  6. Due to current events: Report of the conference "Cultural property in danger - looted excavations and illegal trade" is online (26.05.2015)

    The war waged by the Islamic State terrorist militia against globally significant cultural sites in Iraq and Syria has brought the global problem of looted artefacts and illegal trafficking to a sadly topical level. When the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, together with the German Archaeologi

  7. Electronic music from the roof of the Bode Museum - Parzinger: "We are in solidarity with the Berlin club scene (03.07.2020)

    "SPOT // berlin art sessions": One-hour DJ set - top location of the National Museums in Berlin - streamed film The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its National Museums in Berlin are launching the "SPOT // berlin art sessions" project together with GERMAN ARTS. Electronic club music meets

  8. Slight increase in visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 (16.12.2025)

    The Institute for Museum Research reports: 107.4 million visits to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 - museums show more special exhibitions again - data collected for zoos, animal parks and botanical gardens for the first time Museums and exhibition centres in Germany enjoyed a 1.3 percent inc

  9. Course set for the refurbishment of the State Library at the Kulturforum - start of preparatory measures (12.02.2026)

    Scharoun's listed architectural icon urgently needs to be renovated - redesigned into a modern, sustainable, user-friendly library - complex construction project with relocation of 5.4 million books The urgently needed basic refurbishment of the "Bücherschiff" at the Kulturforum can begin. The build

  10. Change in the office of Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (20.12.2010)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, today unanimously elected Prof Dr Günther Schauerte as the new Vice-President of the SPK. Mr Schauerte is currently Deputy Director General of the National Museums in Berlin -