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Parzinger on the corona crisis: Museums will close to the public from Monday (2 November) until the end of the month - archives and libraries will remain open under certain conditions The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, explains the corona crisis: "The numb

One of the most valuable collections of the former Prussian State Library, now the Berlin State Library, the Autographa Collection, has been catalogued after several years of intensive work and is now recorded in a comprehensive two-part catalogue (book and CD-ROM). The special feature of this catal

To mark Hermann Parzinger’s departure as President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the appointment of his successor, Marion Ackermann, a symposium bringing together the SPK’s key research partnerships was held at the James Simon Gallery on 20 and 21 May 2025. The focus was pri

To mark Hermann Parzinger’s departure as President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the appointment of his successor, Marion Ackermann, a symposium bringing together the SPK’s key research partnerships was held at the James Simon Gallery on 20 and 21 May 2025. The focus was pri

With the help of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Cultural Foundation of the Federal States, the State Library acquires Wolf Biermann's private and professional archives and personal diaries. Like no other, the 84-year-old singer-songwriter's work has reflected t

Heinz Berggruen has said goodbye. On the evening of 23 February, he passed away peacefully in Paris at the age of 93 - heart failure. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the National Museums in Berlin received the news of his death with dismay and great sadness. The Museum Berggruen, with

The Renaissance painting "Mary with the Child" was consigned to Sotheby's New York for appraisal and identified by the auction house as an old collection of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. The owner, the American Bryan Horney, immediately agreed to return the painting to the Gemäldegalerie. He himself ha

To kick off 2014, the chamber concert series "Notturno", which the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin has been organising in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 2010, invites you to the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin on 10 January. Like all of the se

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its museums are taking part in the "Berlin Says Thank You!" campaign day in recognition of the voluntary commitment of Berliners in helping refugees: the Pergamon Museum, the Bode Museum and the Musical Instrument Museum are offering free admission and f

German/American Provenance Research Exchange Programme (PREP) has come to an end: Transatlantic network has been established The German-American Exchange on Provenance Research in Museums, PREP for short, has come to an end in Washington. Museum experts from 25 German and American institutions speci