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The five institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will offer more service at all levels in future In future, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will present itself in its museums in an even more visitor-friendly and service-orientated way. For example, the foyer of the Kultur

Provenance research on human remains leads to modern-day descendants for the first time - DNA analysis proves clear relationships In a project launched in 2017, the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin, together with scientists from Rwanda, analysed the provenance

From 4 to 8 November 2024, the 4A_Lab invites you to the interdisciplinary academy "Ecological Entanglements across Collections - Plant Lives and Beyond" in Berlin. In dialogue with researchers, experts and an interested audience, ways of thinking about plant and non-human life forms will be examine

The life-size figure "Le Drame Lyrique", also known as the "Violinist", once adorned the foyer of the Opéra Comique. Until 1932, the work by French sculptor Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900) was displayed in the foyer of the third oldest theatre institution in Paris. After being transferred to the Mus

On 25 July 1957, the law on the establishment of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation was passed by the German Bundestag. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, emphasised: "The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) is a great success story. Th

Why the Berlin collections can provide answers to today's questions - Plus: Udo Kittelmann searches for home in his collections, Eugen Blume deciphers Beuys and Philipp Demandt visits the Zoo of Art once again What is home? A topic that is as hotly debated as Brexit or the outcome of the European Fo

According to its President Hermann Parzinger, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will permanently commemorate the National Socialists' defamatory and denunciatory "Degenerate Art" campaign. Exactly 80 years ago today, on 19 July 1937, the associated propaganda exhibition was opened in Munich.

There are two mummified heads of face-tattooed Māori men (Toi moko) in the collections of the Ethnological Museum. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), to which the Ethnological Museum belongs, will return them to New Zealand. In autumn 2019, the Museum of New Zealand asked Te Papa Tonga

Work is currently starting on site for the Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum. The Haus der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin is being built according to plans by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Several measures are necessary to prepare the area for the construction work. The southbound l

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's institutions counted almost 4.5 million visitors in 2023. This success, which builds on the pre-corona period and is a great vote of confidence, is highlighted in the Annual Report 2023, which was published recently. He also looks at the important events -