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  1. Lars-Christian Koch becomes Director of the Collections of the National Museums in Berlin at the Humboldt Forum (19.03.2018)

    Foundation Board unanimously elected the renowned ethnomusicologist today / Parzinger: Koch impresses with his expertise, experience and network The ethnomusicologist Lars-Christian Koch will become Director of the Ethnological Museum and soon also of the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums

  2. International research museums agree on joint global knowledge and collection network in Berlin (08.11.2018)

    A total of 232 museum representatives from 109 institutions in 24 countries took part in the world's first conference of research museums from 4 to 6 November 2018. At the end of the conference, the participants signed a declaration emphasising that research museums around the world can work togethe

  3. Inés de Castro will not be Collection Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art (13.02.2018)

    SPK President Parzinger regrets cancellation - We will soon present a new collection director Inés de Castro, Director of the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, will not become Director of the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin in the Humboldt

  4. Hamburger Bahnhof: Contract with Friedrich Christian Flick Collection ends in September 2021 (24.04.2020)

    Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin deeply regret the termination - Parzinger: 17 years of outstanding cooperation have made Hamburger Bahnhof a hotspot of contemporary art - Eissenhauer: Friedrich Christian Flick has also rendered outstanding services to the Staatlich

  5. SPK restitutes work from Hans Purrmann's collection (16.01.2020)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has agreed with the heirs of the artist Hans Purrmann on the restitution of a work from the National Museums' Picture Gallery. Purrmann had sold the fragment of a painting by Hans Baldung Grien in 1937 due to his difficult situation as a "degenerate" artist.

  6. Acquisition history of the Berlin Troy Collection - Heinrich Schliemann's files are conserved - Funded by the Coordination Centre for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage (KEK) (28.07.2021)

    The Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin will be conserving the files of the archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890). The documents on the complex acquisition history of the famous Troy collection will thus be secured for the long term. The project is being

  7. Research into the provenance of a historical collection of human remains from West Africa begins at SPK (14.09.2021)

    The federal government is funding a three-year research project on human remains from West Africa at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History The collections of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin include 477 human skulls that were brought to Germany from W

  8. Wartime loss of the Berlin antiquities collection turns up at the Museum of Cultural History in Magdeburg (05.05.2020)

    Museum of Cultural History Magdeburg hands over ancient Greek vase to the Collection of Classical Antiquities of the National Museums in Berlin - Vase had been considered a war loss since 1945 - on display in Magdeburg until 17 May, then in the Altes Museum in Berlin The Museum of Cultural History M

  9. Bronze statuette of a satyr from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities is handed over to the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (28.02.2020)

    The statuette of a satyr had long been kept in the Collection of Classical Antiquities of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin as a foreign possession. In 2019, it was finally clarified that it came from Kassel. We cordially invite you to the handover (with photo opportunity) on 3 March 2020, at 1 p.m. a

  10. Opening of the restoration department and handover of the Berlin collection inventories in Luanda (17.05.2022)

    On 17 May 2022, the Goethe-Institut Angola presented the translation of the complete, multi-volume object list of the Angola collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin to the Angolan Ministry of Culture at a ceremony. In this way, the partners hope to contribute to greater transparency in the deba