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  1. 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

  2. Herzog & de Meuron build the new museum "Neue Nationalgalerie - Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts" at Berlin's Kulturforum (27.10.2016)

    Realisation competition successfully completed: Jury chaired by Arno Lederer awards a second and a third prize as well as four commendations in addition to the first prize for the Basel office - Grütters: Grandiose design - Parzinger: This design completely rethinks museum architecture and will make

  3. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Smithsonian Institution launch German-American exchange programme on provenance research (18.10.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI, Washington, USA), two of the world's largest museum complexes and research institutions, are launching a project to systematically network German and American provenance researchers. The three-year "German-American

  4. On yesterday's ARD programme "FAKT" about human remains from the former colony of German East Africa / Parzinger does not rule out returns (23.11.2016)

    Yesterday's programme FAKT (ARD, 21.45 hrs) reported on allegedly new finds of human skulls from the colonial era, including in an alleged in a supposed "secret depot" of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Cultural Heritage Foundation. In 2014 and 2015, the SPK issued several press releases

  5. 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

  6. Federal government funds "Museum 4.0" pilot project (15.11.2016)

    At the end of last week, the Bundestag's Budget Committee approved funding for the "Museum 4.0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future" project. The project, which is being led by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, also involves the Deutsche Aus-wandererhaus Bremerhaven, the Deutsc

  7. SPK website revised: Focus on news and thematic dossiers (17.11.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has further developed its website www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de and now presents itself online in a more up-to-date way and for the first time with an overview of what is happening throughout the Foundation. A "Newswall" on the homepage, topic dossiers an

  8. Collector Egidio Marzona donates books, editions and posters to the art library for "Encyclopaedia of Art of the 60s and 70s" (14.10.2016)

    Once again, the collector Egidio Marzona has surprised the Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin with a major donation. The 115 books and editions, 141 posters and around 1,000 invitation cards are an excellent addition to the Marzona Collection, which was acquired in 2002. Even then, Marzon

  9. Hermann Parzinger on the donation by Heiner Bastian (06.10.2016)

    On the surprising news that the Heiner Bastian family will donate the house Bastian am Kupfergraben to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, waiving any compensation and without conditions, says Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK: "We are really surprised! You don't receive such a generous

  10. Museum Island gets the "Reinhold Würth Centre for Cultural Education and Mediation in the Bastian House" in 2017 - Grütters and Parzinger thank Reinhold Würth and the Heiner Bastian family for their generous commitment (30.09.2016)

    The "Haus Bastian" on Kupfergraben, built by David Chipperfield, will become the "Reinhold Würth Centre for Cultural Education and Mediation in Haus Bastian" of the National Museums in Berlin. A generous donation from entrepreneur and collector Reinhold Würth and an equally generous offer from the B