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The statuette of a satyr had long been kept in the Collection of Classical Antiquities of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin as a foreign possession. In 2019, it was finally clarified that it came from Kassel. We cordially invite you to the handover (with photo opportunity) on 3 March 2020, at 1 p.m. a

Provenance of historical skull collection researched - funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media enables mediation in West Africa Over a period of three years, researchers from the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin have been workin

First day open to the public at the Pergamonmuseum in Berlin: June 4, 2027 – Pergamon Altar, Islamic Art Collection and highlights from Babylonia will be presented in new display – Group bookings availa-ble from 1st of July, 2026 The Pergamon Museum, located on Berlin’s Museum Island – a UNESCO Worl

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2013 organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Rectors' Conference of German Music Universities and the Berlin University of the Arts In 2013, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will take place for the first tim

The foundation stone for the central reading room of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden is being laid today in the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and State Secretary Lütke Daldrup, who is standing in for the Federal Minister of Building Wolfgang Tiefensee. The new bui

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned ten autograph manuscripts from the estate of the composer and music writer Edwin Geist to his heirs. At the same time, an open-ended loan agreement was concluded so that the manuscripts will remain in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußisch

Edmund de Unger, whose private collection in the field of Islamic art, known internationally as the Keir Collection, achieved worldwide significance, died on 25 January 2011 in Ham near London at the age of 92. Edmund de Unger was laid to rest today in Richmond / London with great sympathy from inte

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) has set up an advisory committee to support the planning of the Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum in Berlin - in agreement with the Chair of the Foundation Council, Minister of State Monika Grütters. This goes back to a suggestion made by t

Climb into a Chinese rickshaw and find out more about the new Berlin Palace: Humboldt Lab Dahlem launches the "Humboldt Lab Cabs" at the Long Night of Museums on 29 August 2015 With the new Humboldt Lab Cabs, the Humboldt Lab Dahlem will familiarise citizens - but of course also visitors to the city

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today received back two major gouache paintings by the Berlin artist Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905), which were thought to have been lost for over sixty years. The works were identified following a tip-off from Christie's auction house, where they were to