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  1. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2017 with new artistic director and new patron (23.06.2016)

    With immediate effect, Prof. Dr Sebastian Nordmann, artistic director of the Konzerthaus of the Konzerthaus Berlin and the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, takes over the artistic director of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition. competition. The competition is under the patronage of A

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes 384 books from the Berlin State Library to the Potsdam St John's Lodge "Teutonia zur Weisheit" (23.06.2016)

    Today, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, handed over 384 volumes from the former library of the Masonic Lodge to Matthias Bohn, a member of the board of the St John's Lodge "Teutonia zur Weisheit" in Potsdam. The books were identified

  3. SPK and ZDF/3sat extend media partnership (22.06.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) is continuing its successful media partnership with ZDF, which began 15 years ago. On Wednesday evening, 22 June 2016, ZDF Director General Thomas Bellut and SPK President Hermann Parzinger signed the extension of the partnership until 2020. As part of

  4. Marzona art collection remains in Berlin, close collaboration with archive in Dresden (22.06.2016)

    Grütters: Berlin and Dresden benefit from the collector's generosity. Parzinger: The Marzona Art Collection will remain an integral part of the future Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum. Cooperation between SPK and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden to be expanded. Egidio Marzona's collec

  5. 42 finalists for the competition to realise the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum (16.06.2016)

    Competition documents to be sent out soon - Grütters: Design must be convincing in terms of urban planning and function - Parzinger: A lot of creativity and expertise for art - Submissions in mid-September The realisation competition for the planned Museum of the 20th Century of the National Gallery

  6. Five houses. Ten euros: UNESCO World Heritage Day on 5 June on Berlin's Museum Island (02.06.2016)

    Hermann Parzinger and Michael Eissenhauer invite Berliners and guests of the city to come and take a look! The UNESCO World Heritage Day will take place this Sunday, 5 June 2016, from 10 am to 6 pm on Museum Island Berlin. With a day ticket of ten euros (concessions: five euros), visitors can visit

  7. Off to the Humboldt Forum: Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art present themselves at the Open Construction Site Day this weekend (09.06.2016)

    A palace without an emperor, the flaming Buddha, a mysterious totem pole - stories like these will be told at the Humboldt Forum in future. This coming weekend, the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin will once again take visitors on a journey into the f

  8. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over Meyerheim painting to the German Historical Museum (30.05.2016)

    The painting "Dragoner-Regiment von Borke Nr 7" (1864) by Friedrich Wilhelm Meyerheim was kept in the Nationalgalerie as so-called foreign property and was also published as such. In the course of research by the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM), it has now been clearly identified as belonging to

  9. Database, capacity building, dark field research: how the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation supports the protection of cultural property in Syria (01.06.2016)

    On the occasion of the International Meeting of Experts on the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Syria, which is taking place from 2 to 4 June 2016 at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says: "If one day the guns fall s

  10. Museum Island receives temporary exhibition building "Pergamonmuseum. The Panorama" (09.11.2016)

    In order to be able to offer visitors to Berlin's Museum Island an attractive programme during the renovation of the Pergamon Museum, the SPK is erecting a temporary exhibition building. It will be built directly opposite the Museum Island on Kupfergraben and next to the railway line. Visitors will