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  1. Decision in favour of new management of the art library (04.12.2006)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, today unanimously appointed Dr Moritz Wullen, currently Director of Exhibitions at the Nationalgalerie Berlin, as Director of the Art Library. He will succeed Prof. Dr Bernd Ev

  2. Sculpture collection - documentation of losses (31.07.2007)

    Since the reunification of the Berlin collections under the umbrella of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, recovered relocation documents have been analysed. This has made it possible to systematically record and document the losses from the period of the Second World War and the occupation

  3. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation receives the Innovation Award of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry for the Museum Island (17.11.2009)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, accepted the 2009 Innovation Award from Klaus Laepple, President of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry, at the Tourism Summit yesterday evening. The Foundation received the award for its highly publicised

  4. Third issue of the SPK magazine shows the "SPK in motion" (04.07.2011)

    The SPK magazine was published for the third time at the beginning of July 2011. After focussing on "Discover" and "Future", the current issue focuses on "Movement". Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, emphasises: "There is a lot going on at the Prussian Cultur

  5. Annual press conference 2015 (28.01.2015)

    At its annual press conference today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its plans for the coming year. Together with the directors of the five institutions, Hermann Parzinger took stock of 2014 and provided information on new projects, developments and exhibitions.

  6. Urgently needed funds approved: Parzinger thanks the Budget Committee and Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters (14.11.2016)

    State Library's acquisition budget increases - Pergamon Museum construction schedule secured - Plaster moulding shop to be expanded - Museum 4.0 launched At the end of last week, the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approved additional funding for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. T

  7. 130-year-old photographs return to art library (30.05.2017)

    Before the Second World War, the Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin owned over 400 works by the photographer Ottomar Anschütz. A large part of these are considered lost. Recently, Anschütz's great-grandson gave the museum six photographs of wolves and foxes taken in 1886. Holger Anschütz

  8. History to go: Secret State Archives PK will in future offer an "archive case" for school pupils (05.09.2017)

    In order to familiarise pupils from year 9 onwards with the handling of historical source material, the Secret State Archives PK has developed an "archive case" with written examples from different eras in a three-year cooperation with the "Schule an der Haveldüne" in Berlin-Spandau. From September,

  9. "Where does the future begin?" Annual Report 2022 shows external perspectives on the SPK (09.08.2023)

    The new annual report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has been published. It looks back on the important events of 2022 - such as the securing of the Rieckhallen, the discovery of a Rembrandt, restitutions such as the Benin bronzes, the opening of the museums in the Humboldt Forum and t

  10. Statement on the criticism of the Gemäldegalerie's relocation plans (04.07.2012)

    Hermann Parzinger firmly rejects the criticism levelled in recent days at the plans to relocate the Gemäldegalerie and the Nationalgalerie, which have been described as a "castling". The following points explain the reasons for the plans to relocate the Gemäldegalerie and construct a new building, a