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Visitor days in the Pergamonmuseum south wing shortly before the start of construction - opening hours extended (27.02.2025)

More tickets available! 7 to 9 March 2025: Babylon in Berlin - Visitor Days at the Pergamonmuseum South Wing The first tickets for the visiting days at the Pergamonmuseum were sold out within a few days. On Monday, 3 March 2025, additional ticket contingents will be released for sale from 12 noon. A

Dagmar Korbacher becomes director of the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett - Karen Tieth becomes head of the bpk picture agency (03.07.2018)

For the first time in the history of these institutions, women are at the helm. At its meeting yesterday, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation decided to appoint art historian Dagmar Korbacher as Director of the Museum of Prints and Drawings. From 1 November 2018, she w

SPK returns human remains and grave goods to Hawai'i (11.04.2023)

A few days ago, the SPK handed over four iwi kūpuna (human remains of Hawaiian descent) and seven moepū (grave goods) to Hui Iwi Kuamo'o, an organisation of Hawaiian First Nations representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). The human remains had been in the care of the Museum of Prehistory an

And in the evening in the Mies-Bau: 'Notturno' in the Neue Nationalgalerie on 7 November. Works by Gabrielli, Dorfman and Brahms in dialogue with art (29.10.2014)

On 7 November 2014, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will open the fifth season of their joint chamber concert series "Notturno" at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Mies van der Rohe's masterpiece, which has been home to modern art in the capital since

"Merovingian period - Europe without borders. Archaeology and history of the 5th to 8th centuries". Exhibition opening with looted artefacts in Russia (09.03.2007)

On Monday, 12 March 2007, the joint exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders" by the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the Berlin State Museums, the Pushkin State Museum Moscow, the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg and the State Historical Museum Moscow will be opened at

The Neues Museum on Berlin's Museum Island - a jewel of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (20.04.2009)

The New Museum. On 16 October 2009, the Neues Museum will reopen after 70 years. The building, which was severely damaged in the Second World War and preserved as a ruin, has been restored over the last ten years according to plans by David Chipperfield and was handed over to the Prussian Cultural H

On the death of Heinz Berggruen (26.02.2007)

Heinz Berggruen has said goodbye. On the evening of 23 February, he passed away peacefully in Paris at the age of 93 - heart failure. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the National Museums in Berlin received the news of his death with dismay and great sadness. The Museum Berggruen, with

A differentiated view of Iranian modernity (01.03.2017)

Within just a few years, modern art in Iran in the 1960s and 1970s achieved a rich development. Its protagonists were caught in a tense relationship between connecting with international developments and drawing on centuries-old traditions. On 11 March 2017, at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut

Adolph Menzel's "Oberregierungsrath Knerk" returns to the Kupferstichkabinett after more than seventy years (11.03.2019)

Portrait sketch was to be auctioned at Grisebach - After initial indications of its provenance from the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, the auction house contacted the SPK - Collector decided to return it The portrait of "Geheimer Oberregierungsrath Knerk" (ca. 1863/1865) is a study for the monumental

Antiquities return (15.07.2019)

Dresden and Berlin antiquities collections discover pieces from each other's collections - foreign property exchanged In recent years, the clarification of war losses and objects held in the collections as foreign property has been the subject of research projects at the antiquities collections in B

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