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Despite many pandemic-related restrictions, 2021 was a year filled with highlights. And the SPK network has more must-sees lined up for 2022. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Following the (re)opening of major venues in 2021 – Neue Nationalgalerie, the collections in the Humboldt Forum – the exhibition p

The first large object, the Luf boat, has been moved from the Ethnologisches Museum to the Humboldt Forum. The boat drew crowds to Dahlem and is one of the highlights of the permanent exhibit, which will be open for viewing again in late 2019, in the reconstructed Berliner Schloss (Berlin Palace). B

SPK President hopes for „further progress towards solving the case“ of the Big Maple Leaf The President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Foundation), Hermann Parzinger, has thanked the Berlin police force for its „excellent detective work into the burglary at the Bode Mus

Photography, Audio Recording, and Filmmaking Photography, audio recording, and filmmaking are possible with the permission of the press office for purposes of news reporting as well as with regard to general themes regarding the Foundation’s world. Photographers in the Neues Museum © SPK News Report

On 25 November 2017 admission is free on the Museumsinsel and at the Kulturforum for the Activities Day “On the Way to the Humboldt Forum“. We spoke with Michael Eissenhauer, Director-General of the Staatliche Museen, about the upcoming convergence of cultures on show for free on 25 November as a fo

In the art intervention The Other Nefertiti, two artists have published a 3D model of the bust of Nefertiti online – because, they say, the bust and its data are not accessible. How true is that claim? Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al-Badri say on their website that they made the scan in the Neues Mus

On November 17, 2022, construction work began on a replica of the magnificent eastern gateway of Sanchi in front of the Humboldt Forum. On the Lustgarten side of the Humboldt Forum, construction is currently under way on a replica of the magnificent eastern gate of Sanchi. Situated at a spot clearly

Ernst-Waldschmidt-Preis In recognition of outstanding research in the field of Indology, the Stiftung Ernst Waldschmidt of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz bestows the Ernst-Waldschmidt-Preis. It includes prize money up to 5,000 euros. The prize has been offered since 1988 and can be awarded e

The new Bauakademie will be an example of sustainability in architecture The reconstructed version of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s former Bauakademie (Building Academy) in the historical center of Berlin will be “an outstanding example of architectural innovation and environmental, economic and social

Vladimir Matveyev's gift to the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is valuable in more than one way: the two-ruble gold coin of Catherine the Great completes the set of coins from her reign. The permanent exhibition at the Münzkabinett (Coin Cabinet) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (