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  1. SPK - The magazine shows the new centre of Berlin (20.06.2018)

    Humboldt Forum, James-Simon-Galerie, the interim building for the Pergamon Museum, Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden, debates about the Bauakademie: the centre of Berlin is changing. A new magazine looks at the present and future of the historically evolved centre. Under the new title "SPK - Das Mag

  2. South Sea boat floats into the Humboldt Forum (29.05.2018)

    The reconstruction of the Berlin Palace as the Humboldt Forum successfully passes an important milestone: on 29 May, the first major object from the National Museums in Berlin, the world's only airboat from Oceania, arrives on schedule in the exhibition hall on the first floor. Hans-Dieter Hegner, C

  3. The European Cultural Heritage Summit will take place in Berlin and Potsdam from 18 to 24 June 2018 (25.05.2018)

    The European Cultural Heritage Summit under the motto "Sharing Heritage - Sharing Values" is Europe's largest event in the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. The Summit - supported by the European Union, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Berlin Senate Depart

  4. Nocturnal chamber concert 'Notturno' in the Gemäldegalerie on 2 November A DSO ensemble plays chamber music from duo to quintet (25.10.2018)

    The concert series 'Notturno', organised by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), will start its new season on 2 November. In the first nocturnal chamber concert of the 2018|2019 season, a DSO ensemble will present works b

  5. Benin Dialogue Group agrees support for museum in Nigeria (23.10.2018)

    The participants of this year's meeting of the Benin Dialogue Group agreed last Friday that a new museum with a regularly changing exhibition of works of art from the former Kingdom of Benin should be established in Benin City. European and Nigerian museums will provide works of art on loan for this

  6. Humboldt Forum: Joint provenance research with partners from Amazonia at the Ethnological Museum (10.10.2018)

    "Shared Knowledge" project analyses around 3,000 objects with guests from Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela - results on display in the new Berlin Palace Guests from Amazonia are currently researching 150 artefacts from the Rio Negro region in the Dahlem depots of the Ethnological Museum of the Nationa

  7. Open, diverse, cosmopolitan: Herzog & de Meuron present the revised plans for the National Gallery's Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum (09.10.2018)

    With the Museum of the 20th Century, a building is being erected at the Kulturforum that will develop great charisma and at the same time fulfil the complex museum tasks to a high degree. The architecture that will be created in the coming years will be even more open to its surroundings and will fo

  8. SPK involved in two new Clusters of Excellence - Parzinger: Decision confirms SPK's success as a network of important scientific institutions (28.09.2018)

    Yesterday, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced its decision on which Clusters of Excellence will be funded in the years 2019 to 2025. The SPK is involved in 2 of the 57 selected clusters. Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, was delighted with the decision: "The participation in two n

  9. Berlin and Dresden libraries return books confiscated due to Nazi persecution to heirs (27.09.2018)

    Joint return of three books from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) to the heirs of Hedwig Hesse Both the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the SLUB Dresden recently found copies with the book

  10. SPK intensifies cooperation with the University of Oxford (10.09.2018)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and University of Oxford sign Memorandum of Understanding to deepen strategic partnership The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will work more closely with the University of Oxford in the areas of conservation, digitisation, research, exhibitions and visitor