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  1. Generous support for the Museum Berggruen: Berggruen family to donate one million euros a year from 2025 onward (10.09.2021)

    The Museum Berggruen of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, part of the SPK, will significantly expand its program work, to which end it will be granted greater autonomy. To this end, the Berggruen family will support the museum with one million euros annually after renovation work is completed, probab

  2. SPK cancels Tehran exhibition (27.12.2016)

    Parzinger: Iran still not issuing export permit for works of art – SPK committed to cultural dialogue The exhibition “The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin” planned for the Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will not be able to take place as scheduled. As t

  3. Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut on the report of the Wissenschaftsrat (23.09.2020)

    Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI, Ibero-American Institute) on the report of the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) and the further reform process of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) The Scie

  4. Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut on the report of the Wissenschaftsrat (23.09.2020)

    Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI, Ibero-American Institute) on the report of the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) and the further reform process of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) The Scie

  5. James-Simon-Galerie Opening Date Approaches (27.03.2019)

    The new gateway to the treasures of Museum Island opens for visitors on July 13, 2019 Museumsinsel (Museum Island) in Berlin will soon have another major attraction. In the future, the James-Simon-Galerie designed by David Chipperfield will welcome guests to the Museumsinsel. Chancellor Angela Merke

  6. Wartime Casualty Returns to the Antikensammlung (05.05.2020)

    A Greek vase thought to be lost has reappeared in Magdeburg. It belonged to the Antikensammlung before the war. From late May onward, it will once again be on show in the Altes Museum. The vase is around 30 cm tall with a white coating, the slip, on which the farewell of a warrior is depicted in onc

  7. Statement on the Act of Vandalism on 3 October 2020 in Museums on the Museumsinsel Berlin (21.10.2020)

    On 3 October 2020, exhibits in four museums on the Museumsinsel Berlin were sprayed with an oily substance. Most of the affected objects are in the Neues Museum and Pergamonmuseum, along with a few objects in the exhibition building Pergamonmuseum. The Panorama and in the Alte Nationalgalerie. The a

  8. Humboldt Forum, Ahoy! (29.05.2018)

    The first large object, the Luf boat, has been moved from the Ethnologisches Museum to the Humboldt Forum. The boat drew crowds to Dahlem and is one of the highlights of the permanent exhibit, which will be open for viewing again in late 2019, in the reconstructed Berliner Schloss (Berlin Palace). B

  9. Visit the Pergamonmuseum Before It Closes in October 2023 (27.03.2023)

    Beginning October 23, 2023, the Pergamonmuseum on Berlin's Museum Island will be completely closed for basic renovation and repair as part of the Museum Island Master Plan. It will reopen in the spring of 2027. Beginning October 23, 2023, the Pergamonmuseum (Pergamon Museum) on Berlin's Museum Islan

  10. The "Nefertiti Hack" – Is It a Hoax? (09.03.2016)

    In the art intervention The Other Nefertiti, two artists have published a 3D model of the bust of Nefertiti online – because, they say, the bust and its data are not accessible. How true is that claim? Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al-Badri say on their website that they made the scan in the Neues Mus