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The Advisory Commission, which is chaired by Prof Dr Jutta Limbach and deals with issues relating to the restitution of cultural assets seized as a result of Nazi persecution, today recommended that the so-called Welfenschatz from the Museum of Decorative Arts of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Found

The exhibition “From Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism. Provenances of the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection” at the Neue Nationalgalerie impressively demonstrates the fascinating connections that provenance research brings to light. A conversation with the exhibition’s curator

The exhibition “From Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism. Provenances of the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection” at the Neue Nationalgalerie impressively demonstrates the fascinating connections that provenance research brings to light. A conversation with the exhibition’s curator

WITH REGISTRATION, ADMISSION FREE (some offers subject to charge) The 8th International Day of Provenance Research will take place on 8 April 2026. On this day, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will offer insights into the topics and work of provenance research within their museums and institutions.

Free or discounted admission, guided tours, educational programmes, events and performances: thanks to the partnership between the SPK museums Neue Nationalgalerie and Hamburger Bahnhof and the Volkswagen Group, which has now been extended by two years. The aim of "Volkswagen Group Art4All" is to ma

The foundation stone for the Altes Museum was laid 200 years ago: now an exhibition tells the story of its early days – it is the final exhibition by Andreas Scholl, who is bidding farewell to the Collection of Classical Antiquities

The foundation stone for the Altes Museum was laid 200 years ago: now an exhibition tells the story of its early days – it is the final exhibition by Andreas Scholl, who is bidding farewell to the Collection of Classical Antiquities

What do the bust of Nefertiti, the Market Gate of Miletus and Caspar David Friedrich's painting "The Lone Tree" have in common? Not only are they all famous crowd-pullers at the National Museums in Berlin, they are also at the centre of a new international piano art festival that Young Euro Classic

New layout, new structure, new content - the website of the State Institute for Music Research www.simpk.de has been completely relaunched. The new website of the State Institute for Music Research has been online for a few days now. With its completely revised structure and new design, it is much c

SPK President Parzinger: Objects should be returned to Nigeria "as quickly as possible" - Long-term loans at the Humboldt Forum An agreement on the transfer of ownership and loans for the so-called Benin bronzes in the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin is to be