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  1. The new SPK magazine will be published on 7 July and asks about home: a magazine about everything that belongs to it (01.07.2016)

    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

  2. SPK Annual Report 2023 published: Focus on NS art theft (05.07.2024)

    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 -

  3. Welfenschatz: American court decides on the admissibility of the lawsuit (01.04.2017)

    The action for the return of the Guelph Treasure was partially allowed by the U.S. District Court at first instance. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which had filed a motion to dismiss the action in its entirety as inadmissible, will now examine its further options. In February 2015, a la

  4. German museums and exhibition centres still very well attended in 2016 despite a slight decline in visitor numbers - total number of museum visits fell by 2.2% year-on-year to 111,877,085 (14.12.2017)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 111,877,085 visits in 2016. Compared to 2015, the number of visits is therefore 2,546,107 (-2.2%) lower than in the previous year (2015: 114,423,192 visits). German museums reported a total of 8,546 special exhibitions. The analyses of museum attendance figures

  5. Return from the Ethnological Museum to Native People in Alaska (16.05.2018)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned nine objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. Foundation President Hermann Parzinger presented them to the Vice President of the Chugach Alaska Corporation, Joh

  6. Decision by the Board of Trustees: Klaus Biesenbach becomes Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Museum of the 20th Century (10.09.2021)

    Decision by the Board of Trustees: Klaus Biesenbach becomes Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie and thus the new museum of the 20th century - The Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and long-time MoMA Chief Curator will take up the post on 1 January 2022 - Parzinger:

  7. Results of provenance research on skulls from German East Africa published (18.01.2023)

    Parzinger: We are ready for immediate return and are waiting for signals from the countries of origin In a project launched in 2017, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin) worked with scientis

  8. Museums are popular - and important economic location factors (12.12.2024)

    Another rise in visitor numbers to German museums and exhibition centres - And: ongoing study by the Institute for Museum Research shows that public funding invested in museums has doubled Museums and exhibition centres in Germany continue to enjoy increasing popularity. This is shown by the overall

  9. Milestone reached in the refurbishment of the Pergamon Museum (04.12.2025)

    First construction phase structurally completed - Collection of Classical Antiquities, Museum of Islamic Art and Museum of the Ancient Near East furnish rooms - reopening in spring 2027 Construction work on the first phase of the Pergamon Museum will be completed at the end of the year. They include

  10. Slight increase in visitor numbers to German museums - Over 109 million museum visits in 2011 (13.12.2012)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 109,581,613 museum visits in 2011. This represents an increase of 0.35 per cent compared to 2010, and is once again the highest number of visits since the survey began in 1981. The results are part of the overall statistical survey of museums and exhibition cen