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  1. The future of Berlin's Kulturforum begins: SPK launches ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century (03.09.2015)

    New museum complex will house the important holdings of the Nationalgalerie - ideas competition to deliver architectural concept and submit proposals for urban planning organisation The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is launching one of its most important new building projects. Over the next

  2. Deutsche Post's "Nefertiti" and "Ishtar Gate" special stamps to be presented at the Neues Museum today (28.01.2013)

    The two special postage stamps "Nefertiti" and "Ishtar Gate" were issued at the beginning of the year as part of Deutsche Post's "Treasures from German museums" series. They show two outstanding archaeological objects from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection and the Museum of the Ancient Near

  3. Parzinger on the reopening of the Museum of Decorative Arts: A place of inspiration for a creative city (20.11.2014)

    The Museum of Decorative Arts at the Kulturforum reopens this Friday after three years of remodelling. The collection of the oldest museum of its kind in Germany has been reorganised at a cost of 4.3 million euros and the foyer has been redesigned. The main attraction is a new fashion and design gal

  4. German-American exchange programme for provenance research: Apply now for 2018! (15.06.2017)

    The German-American Exchange Programme for Provenance Research has been running since the beginning of 2017. The three-year programme is aimed at provenance researchers, curators, archivists and other museum professionals. Interested parties can apply for the 2018 intake until 15 September 2017. The

  5. Louise and the sources (23.03.2026)

    Martyr, mother of the nation, working mum? Queen Louise of Prussia was already a projection screen for ideals and desires during her lifetime and remains so to this day. On 10 March 2026, the Prussian queen turned 250 years old - and the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage celebrated

  6. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the Colombian ethnologist and ethnolinguist Juan A. Echeverri (29.01.2015)

    Guest of Freie Universität Berlin and the Ibero-American Institute researches knowledge transfer in the Amazon region in Berlin. The Colombian ethnologist and ethnolinguist Prof Dr Juan A. Echeverri receives the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, endowe

  7. Nocturnal chamber concert 'Notturno' in the Gemäldegalerie on 2 November A DSO ensemble plays chamber music from duo to quintet (25.10.2018)

    The concert series 'Notturno', organised by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), will start its new season on 2 November. In the first nocturnal chamber concert of the 2018|2019 season, a DSO ensemble will present works b

  8. Invitation to the digital opening of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden (18.01.2021)

    On 25 January 2021, the main building of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden will reopen digitally - after extensive refurbishment, modernisation and expansion. The structural and organisational measures have been completed and the Staatsbibliothek is ready to open the building. In his speech, Bun

  9. Almost 15,000 visitors to the Day in the Green at the Kulturforum Berlin - a paradise in the best autumn weather (14.09.2025)

    15,000 visitors accepted the invitation to the fourth "Day in the Green" at the Kulturforum Berlin on 14 September 2025. The cultural and scientific institutions located there and the Church of St. Matthew had organised a broad programme with over 70 guided tours, concerts, workshops, performances a

  10. Triumph for Berlin scientist Verena Lepper: 1.5 million euros ERC Starting Grant for research on the Egyptian Museum's papyrus collection on the Nile island of Elephantine (30.12.2014)

    The Berlin Egyptologist and Orientalist Prof Dr Verena Lepper has received one of the most important awards in the world of research, the ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). She now has access to funding for her research project "Localising 4000 Years of Cultural History. Te