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  1. 100 years of the State Institute for Music Research: Magazine published to mark the anniversary (12.06.2017)

    The "Soundlabor" at Potsdamer Platz was founded in 1917 in Bückeburg, Lower Saxony: The SPK magazine traces its history and presents the current work of the State Institute for Music Research in reports, interviews and portraits. It is published thanks to the support of the Kuratorium Preußischer Ku

  2. Personnel changes on the Board of Trustees: Barbara Helwing becomes Director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East, Claudia Martin-Konle takes over the State Library's user department (18.12.2018)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, today unanimously made far-reaching personnel decisions for the National Museums in Berlin and the Berlin State Library The Museum of the Ancient Near East at the Staatliche

  3. Recovery of four miniatures from the Loewe Collection for the Alte Nationalgalerie (10.10.2019)

    The SPK was recently able to recover four works of art for the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin that had been thought lost. They belong to a collection of 219 miniatures that Berlin city councillor Loewe had bequeathed to the museum in 1897. The four works have now turned up on the

  4. Three domes for the colonnades (31.07.2009)

    By the end of the year, the colonnades and the colonnade courtyard between the Old National Gallery and the Neues Museum will be extensively repaired and restored. Three domes destroyed during the war, which crowned three "little temples" on the banks of the Spree within the eastern row of columns,

  5. Knowledge archives in dialogue with science and society (10.12.2010)

    Conference organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as part of the Berlin Year of Science 2010 "Berlin - Capital for Science" On 9 and 10 December 2010, the conference "Knowledge Archives in Dialogue with Science and Society" took place at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. As an institut

  6. Night concert on the Museum Island: 'Notturno' at the Neues Museum on 16 January Works by C. Ph. E. Bach, Couperin, Vivaldi and Zelenka in dialogue with art (09.01.2015)

    For the second 'Notturno' chamber concert of the season, an eight-piece ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will embark on an interdisciplinary search for clues in the Neues Museum on 16 January. Since its reopening in 2009, the building on Museum Island has housed important exhib

  7. 'Notturno' - Summer open air in the garden of the Museum Berggruen A trio from the DSO will play works by Bruch, Françaix, Mozart and Smit on 16 June (09.06.2017)

    The chamber concert series 'Notturno' will conclude its season in the open air on 16 June. An ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin will perform trio compositions for clarinet, viola and piano by Max Bruch, Jean Françaix, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Leo Smit in the garden of the Mus

  8. Return from the Ethnological Museum to Native People in Alaska decided (18.12.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will return nine objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. The Board of Trustees today approved a corresponding proposal by the President. The artefacts are grave goods from Na

  9. Foundation Board decides: Ralph Gleis will continue as director of the Alte Nationalgalerie (28.06.2022)

    This appointment completes the reorganisation of the Nationalgalerie network - Parzinger: Ralph Gleis has completely revitalised the Alte Nationalgalerie with an innovative and contemporary programme - Gleis: moving forward into the future with momentum Ralph Gleis will be the future director of the

  10. SPK restitutes statuette of a Maria Lactans to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt (24.01.2023)

    On Friday 20 January, the SPK returned a statuette of a 16th century Maria Lactans (Nursing Mother of God) to the heirs of the Jewish banker and entrepreneur Jakob Goldschmidt. The work had been acquired in 1936 for the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (then: Königliche Museen