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  1. First prize for the Neue Nationalgalerie - basic refurbishment has been honoured by the Association of German Architects (25.01.2022)

    The basic refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie has been awarded first prize by the BDA Berlin (Association of German Architects). This was announced yesterday by the BDA. The interdisciplinary jury particularly praised the "refurbishment carried out with masterful precision and an almost invisi

  2. Pop-up vaccination centre in the Potsdamer Platz State Library (08.02.2022)

    Vaccination will take place from 16 to 19 February 2022 at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin at Potsdamer Platz, Potsdamer Straße 33. Registration via Doctolib: https://www.doctolib.de/institut/berlin/aino Vaccination protects - even culture. That's why the SPK, together with Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH,

  3. What the SPK museums have planned for the coming year Press conference on the 2026 programme preview (17.11.2025)

    From Constantin Brancusi to Verner Panton, from Genghis Khan to Paul Cassirer, from the discovery of community to heavy material - this is the spectrum of exhibition highlights with which the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library and the State Institute for Music Research hope to attr

  4. From 16 April 2024: New opening hours at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Musikinstrumenten-Museum - late openings in the summer months (04.03.2024)

    Parzinger: We want to react more flexibly to visitor flows in future The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will change the opening hours of the National Museums in Berlin and the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research from 16 April 2024. SPK President Hermann Parzing

  5. Museum Island: Head to the island festival at the end of May! - With one ticket to all 6 houses (29.04.2025)

    The "200 Years of Museum Island Berlin" anniversary starts with a special programme from 30 May to 1 June - island day ticket for 14 euros / annual ticket valid for 2 people. Museum Island Berlin is kicking off its fifth anniversary year with a kick-off weekend centred around UNESCO World Heritage D

  6. Nationalgalerie receives objects from the Schinkel estate back (28.11.2006)

    Some of the personal belongings of the architect and painter Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), which went missing during the turmoil of the Second World War, were returned to the Nationalgalerie Berlin yesterday. The handover took place in San Francisco. The father of the previous owner, who has

  7. Berlin State Library restitutes three manuscripts to Halberstadt (31.08.2015)

    On 4 September 2015, the odyssey of three manuscripts - two medieval and one modern - that once belonged to the library of Halberstadt Cathedral Grammar School ended with their return to the city of Halberstadt. The two medieval manuscripts were among the extensive holdings of books, newspapers, jou

  8. "Art through credit" - On the article "Berliner Blamage" in DER SPIEGEL, issue 45/2017 (07.11.2017)

    The book "Kunst durch Kredit" (De Gruyter, 2017) by Lynn Rother examines the purchase of around 4,400 works of art owned by Dresdner Bank by the State of Prussia for the Berlin museums in 1935 from the perspective of art and banking history. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) points out

  9. Johann Herzberg becomes Chief Information Officer for SPK (16.06.2020)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation gets a Chief Information Officer - Digital transformation is progressing In recent years, the SPK has taken numerous steps to develop further in the area of digitalisation. Since 2017, new measures have been initiated and a digital strategy developed for SPK

  10. SPK will return human remains to Australia (11.09.2020)

    Human remains in the collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin are returned to Australia. The Australian government has been in dialogue with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) for several years regarding human remains from the collections of the Ethnologi