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  1. The scientific potential of anthropological collections - BGAEU conference from 27 to 28 March 2025 at PETRI (21.03.2025)

    Europe's colonial heritage plays a major role in current social discourse. The Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory (BGAEU), founded on the initiative of Rudolf Virchow in 1869, curates a historical teaching collection of human skulls and skeletons, which was mainly compiled by

  2. "German-Russian Library Initiative": First concrete projects to jointly research and make accessible book collections from German and Russian libraries that were relocated as a result of the war. (06.10.2009)

    On 23 September 2009, on the initiative of the Rudomino Library for Foreign Literature and the Berlin State Library, German and Russian librarians met in Moscow for a round table discussion in order to strengthen professional cooperation and exchange between German and Russian libraries and also to

  3. Sign against cultural destruction: SPK hands over clay brick fragment to Iraq (28.10.2015)

    Foundation President Hermann Parzinger and Markus Hilgert, Director of the Museum of the Museum of the Ancient Near East, hand over 2600 year old inscription to the Iraqi ambassador Photo opportunity: 2 November 2015, 10 a.m., at the Archaeological Centre In view of the systematic destruction of cul

  4. Federal government funds Arab-German research cooperation with 15 million euros until 2025 (30.01.2020)

    Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin heads the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) with

  5. 'Notturno' on 08.11. for the first time in the James-Simon-Galerie (04.11.2019)

    A trio of the DSO plays works by Haydn, Gaubert, Weber and Kapustin On 8 November, an ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) will continue the popular 'Notturno' concert series. For the first time, the venue will be the James-Simon-Galerie, the newly constructed entrance buildi

  6. SPK restitutes two Predell panels from the Fuld Collection (29.08.2019)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted two medieval predella panels from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin to the heirs of the Jewish entrepreneur Harry Fuld Sr. The museums had acquired the two panels from an art dealer in 1940. The panels that were previously exhi

  7. Interdisciplinary – Innovative – Open! (30.03.2026)

    FC Dahlem is breathing new life into the historic museum complex

  8. Interdisciplinary – Innovative – Open! (30.03.2026)

    FC Dahlem is breathing new life into the historic museum complex

  9. Utopia Cultural Forum (18.08.2021)

    With an exhibition and event project, the St. Matthäus Foundation, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation are jointly exploring the history of ideas of the Kulturforum for the first time - on 26 August there will be a festive opening in the open air - in

  10. The Magic of Tolerance (30.03.2026)

    If the Museum of European Cultures didn’t already exist, it would certainly be worth inventing