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  1. SPK and Bavarian State Painting Collections launch joint project to commemorate the fate of Jews (27.01.2022)

    Multimedia archive planned to commemorate victims of Nazi persecution - life stories behind restitution cases - BKM provides 690,000 euros in funding In a three-year project, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation with its National Museums in Berlin and the Bavarian State Painting Collections wil

  2. Professor Axel Marx and his family donate important works by the artist Joseph Beuys from the Erich Marx Collection to SPK (08.09.2022)

    Donation contract signed - Axel Marx: Our family remains connected to the art city of Berlin - Hermann Parzinger: Overwhelming gesture from the family The family of the well-known Berlin collector Erich Marx, who died two years ago, has donated the entire holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys

  3. Online portal "Collection items from colonial contexts" launched (30.11.2021)

    The German Digital Library has today launched the online portal "Collections from colonial contexts" under the domain ccc.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de. This means that collection items from colonial contexts from 25 pilot institutions are now available online within the German Digital Library. In

  4. SPK restitutes three works from the Littmann Collection (15.02.2023)

    Three works from the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen restituted, one of which remains in the museum as a gift from descendants On Wednesday, 15 February 2023, the SPK restituted three works from the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to the heirs of the lawyer Ismar Lit

  5. New directors for the SPK: Anette Hüsch comes to the Alte Nationalgalerie, Antje Scherner to the Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art (09.07.2024)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is becoming more female - this was confirmed by the Board of Trustees on Monday with its personnel decisions: Dr Anette Hüsch, currently Director of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, will take over as Director of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Be

  6. Return of a collection of plaster casts from Berlin to Jena (10.11.2025)

    Historical plaster casts from the University of Jena came into the care of the Collection of Classical Antiquities in 1983. After around forty years, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has returned the collection to its place of origin. The collection of almost 400 plaster casts of ancient sc

  7. The scientific potential of anthropological collections - BGAEU conference from 27 to 28 March 2025 at PETRI (21.03.2025)

    Europe's colonial heritage plays a major role in current social discourse. The Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory (BGAEU), founded on the initiative of Rudolf Virchow in 1869, curates a historical teaching collection of human skulls and skeletons, which was mainly compiled by

  8. Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection becomes the new director of the Getty Villa in Los Angeles (27.08.2025)

    Prof Dr Verena Lepper, currently curator at the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, is leaving Berlin for California. The 52-year-old Egyptologist and orientalist will head the Getty Villa in Los Angeles in future. The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades is one of the two locations of the J. Paul G

  9. Change of office at the head of the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities: Martin Maischberger succeeds Andreas Scholl (04.07.2025)

    At the end of 2025, the Director of the Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Prof Dr Andreas Scholl, will retire after more than twenty years in office. He will be succeeded by his current deputy, Dr Martin Maischberger. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foun

  10. Between construction site and opening - large-scale architecture of the Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Museum of Islamic Art in the Pergamonmuseum under construction (11.02.2025)

    Large parts of the Pergamon Museum will reopen in spring 2027. The Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Museum of Islamic Art will present their highlights in the north wing and central building. While construction work is still underway in some of their rooms, the antique artefacts are alrea