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  1. Almost 100,000 euros in funding for the preservation of written cultural heritage at the SPK (14.08.2017)

    "East Prussian folios" and "Schriftkunst" receive protection The Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage will receive funding of 50,000 euros to protect the "East Prussian Folios" from the "Special Programme 2017 for the Preservation of the Written Cultural Heritage" of Minister of State

  2. German museums and exhibition centres still very well attended in 2016 despite a slight decline in visitor numbers - total number of museum visits fell by 2.2% year-on-year to 111,877,085 (14.12.2017)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 111,877,085 visits in 2016. Compared to 2015, the number of visits is therefore 2,546,107 (-2.2%) lower than in the previous year (2015: 114,423,192 visits). German museums reported a total of 8,546 special exhibitions. The analyses of museum attendance figures

  3. Wall free for art - new acquisition for the Ethnological Museum (01.03.2019)

    The Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball is designing a wall with a large-scale art installation in the Mesoamerica exhibition room of the Ethnological Museum in the Humboldt Forum. Inspired by indigenous pictorial documents, Mariana Castillo Deball has created a work consisting of numerous clay-f

  4. 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

  5. Visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in Germany stabilised at a high level in 2018 (20.12.2019)

    With around 111.6 million visits, the museums maintained the high level of 2016. The museums that took part in the survey reported around 8,800 special exhibitions, which is almost the same number as the previous year. The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 111,662,229 visits in

  6. Museum Berggruen on exhibition tour - refurbishment of the Stüler Building until 2025 (07.07.2022)

    The Museum Berggruen goes travelling: Exhibition tour of important masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne and Klee to Japan, China and Paris - Closure of the Berlin museum from 5 September 2022 - Reopening planned for 2025 after major refurbishment The Museum Berggruen is going on tour with an ex

  7. Kogi masks are restituted (16.06.2023)

    SPK restitutes Kogi masks to Colombia - Handover during a visit by Colombian President Gustavo Petro to Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier at Schloss Bellevue on 16 June 2023 - Roth: "Restitution helps the traditions and customs of the Kogi to be respected" The Ethnological Museum of the Nati

  8. The refurbishment of the Berggruen Museum begins (07.09.2023)

    The visitor magnet in Berlin-Charlottenburg is being expanded into a modern museum. Meanwhile, the museum is on a successful world tour in Japan and China Berlin. The entire museum has been closed to visitors for just under a year due to the need to completely renovate the Stülerbau West, the head b

  9. 100 years, European and not a bit secret (10.06.2024)

    Centenary of the opening of the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Dahlem - Ceremony with words of welcome from Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth and Minister President Reiner Haseloff - Online access to the cross-foundation archive portal archive.spk-berlin.de In 2024,

  10. 23 objects restituted by the SPK form the centrepiece of an exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Namibia (11.04.2024)

    Exhibition as the result of a long-term, collaborative research process with cultural heritage communities, artists and academics - retransfer officially signed On 11 April 2024, a large-scale exhibition will open at the National Art Gallery of Namibia in Windhoek, focusing on 23 objects that were f