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  1. Annual press conference 2017 (08.02.2017)

    For the first time outside the Villa von der Heydt: at the 2017 annual press conference at the Altes Museum, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presented its plans for the coming year. SPK President and the directors of the five institutions gave an outlook and took stock The Prussian Cultura

  2. Parzinger to save the Rieckhallen: A milestone for the home base of contemporary art (23.09.2021)

    SPK President happy and grateful about agreement between the state of Berlin and CA Immo - Director of Hamburger Bahnhof: Great prospects for the museum of the 21st century The state of Berlin intends to acquire the Rieckhallen at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum der Gegenwart - Berlin. This is provided f

  3. Cameroonian Commission for Restitution visits Ethnological Museum (18.10.2023)

    Three members of the recently established Cameroon Restitution Commission (Comité interministériel chargé du rapatriement des biens culturels illégalement exportés à l'étranger au Ministère fédéral des Affaires étrangères) visited the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin on 16 and 1

  4. Visitor days in the Pergamonmuseum south wing shortly before the start of construction - opening hours extended (27.02.2025)

    More tickets available! 7 to 9 March 2025: Babylon in Berlin - Visitor Days at the Pergamonmuseum South Wing The first tickets for the visiting days at the Pergamonmuseum were sold out within a few days. On Monday, 3 March 2025, additional ticket contingents will be released for sale from 12 noon. A

  5. Lost in the war - now back in the Kunstgewerbemuseum: Permoser's ivory group "Hercules and Omphale" (31.07.2007)

    The twenty-two centimetre high group of figures "Hercules and Omphale", carved out of ivory by the Baroque sculptor Balthasar Permoser around 1700, returned to its original place in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts after decades of loss. The work had initially come to the Berlin Kunstkammer in 1

  6. Metropolises and megacities - once and now. An event in the Science Year 2012 - Future Project EARTH (06.09.2012)

    More than half of the world's population already lives in cities. The trend towards megacities is continuing. At the event "Metropolises and megacities - past and present" on 12 September 2012, experts will shed light on the phenomenon of urbanisation from a historical and current perspective and di

  7. Humboldt Lab Cabs - A journey into knowledge (26.08.2015)

    Climb into a Chinese rickshaw and find out more about the new Berlin Palace: Humboldt Lab Dahlem launches the "Humboldt Lab Cabs" at the Long Night of Museums on 29 August 2015 With the new Humboldt Lab Cabs, the Humboldt Lab Dahlem will familiarise citizens - but of course also visitors to the city

  8. Topping-out ceremony on Museum Island: The James-Simon-Galerie takes shape (13.04.2016)

    With the construction of the high colonnades, the new entrance building to the Museum Island is visibly taking shape. The topping-out wreath was hoisted over the shell at midday today (13 April 2016). In the presence of Federal Building Minister Barbara Hendricks, Minister of State for Culture Monik

  9. German museums and exhibition centres still very well attended in 2017 - total number of museum visits increased by 2.2% year-on-year to 114,375,732 (14.12.2018)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 114,375,732 visits in 2017. Compared to 2016, the number of visits is therefore 2,498,647 (+2.2%) higher than in the previous year (2016: 111,877,085 visits). German museums reported a total of 8,765 special exhibitions. The number of visits varied depending on

  10. How do you actually build for the cultural audience of tomorrow? (07.11.2019)

    Architecture summit on the "Blue Sofa": Sir David Chipperfield, Jacques Herzog, Regine Leibinger, HG Merz and Franco Stella in conversation with Vivian Perkovic - On 19 November 2019 from 7 pm in the new James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin's Museum Island - TV broadcast on 19 November 2019 from 11:10 pm o