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In Focus 2022: SPK puts itself to the test – Mid-term (30.03.2026)

For the 2022 Annual Report, we invited cultural correspondents to spend a day exploring places they long to visit, their favourite venues, and the worlds of archives, libraries and collections. We set few parameters; we weren’t looking for courtly reporting, but rather insights and inspiration. Ever

The Acting Grand Master of the Teutonic Order visits the GStA (30.03.2026)

Every two years, historians from the “International Historical Commission for the Study of the Teutonic Order” gather for an international conference. From 19 to 21 September 2024, it took place for the first time at the Secret State Archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (GStA). Also

Research Questions: Inside the kurgans (26.03.2026)

Before he retires in May 2025, Hermann Parzinger will be on hand to answer your questions. As a prehistorian, the Foundation’s President specialises in various aspects of early human history, including the transition to a settled way of life and the emergence of equestrian nomadism (the culture of t

On the death of Heinz Berggruen (26.02.2007)

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

An Italian Madonna portrait that had been missing since the end of the war returned to the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin yesterday (09.02.2012)

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

"Notturno" - Chamber concert on 10 January at Hamburger Bahnhof. DSO ensemble plays works from Vivaldi to Berio at the Museum für Gegenwart (02.01.2014)

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

Integration of refugees: The museums of the SPK say thank you! (10.01.2017)

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

National Socialist art theft: Provenance researchers from Germany and America establish network (30.10.2019)

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

Foundation Board sets course for management positions at the National Museums in Berlin (25.11.2020)

Directorate of the Gemäldegalerie to be re-advertised - Management of the Nationalgalerie to be divided into three positions - Grütters and Parzinger thank Michael Eissenhauer On 23 November 2020, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Cu

Federal and state governments conclude new funding agreement for the SPK / Parzinger: Historic step and important signal for the reform process (03.01.2025)

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the Minister Presidents of the federal states have agreed on a new funding agreement for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) by circular resolution. According to the agreement, the federal and state governments will increase their annual contributions t

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