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  1. Museum of the 20th Century: Participation competition for the realisation competition begins (18.04.2016)

    Call for proposals published in the Official Journal of the European Union: We are looking for 15 teams of architects and landscape architects The process for the new construction of the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum is entering the next round. The invitation to tender for the p

  2. SPK restitutes work from Hans Purrmann's collection (16.01.2020)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has agreed with the heirs of the artist Hans Purrmann on the restitution of a work from the National Museums' Picture Gallery. Purrmann had sold the fragment of a painting by Hans Baldung Grien in 1937 due to his difficult situation as a "degenerate" artist.

  3. Restitution of a lost painting to the SPK (23.09.2025)

    On 23 September, the Belgian House of Representatives returned a painting by Friedrich Nerly to the SPK. It belonged to the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and was previously considered a loss as a result of the Second World War The painting "SS. Giovanni e

  4. Slight increase in visitor numbers to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 (16.12.2025)

    The Institute for Museum Research reports: 107.4 million visits to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 - museums show more special exhibitions again - data collected for zoos, animal parks and botanical gardens for the first time Museums and exhibition centres in Germany enjoyed a 1.3 percent inc

  5. SPK supports Europe-wide import regulation for cultural property from non-EU countries - Parzinger: Important instrument against illegal trade (18.01.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation welcomes the European Commission's procedure to create an EU-wide import regulation from non-EU countries. Foundation President Hermann Parzinger explains: "The SPK supports such a further instrument for the sustainable prevention of trade in illegal cultura

  6. Double bass from the Musical Instrument Museum adorns a 50-euro gold coin (26.04.2018)

    Five-part series to honour German musical instrument making planned until 2022 / Presentation of the first coin on 8 May at 6 pm with Bettina Hagedorn, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance, and SPK Vice President Günther Schauerte at the Musical Instrument Museum A double

  7. Deep mourning for Norbert Zimmermann (29.11.2021)

    Long-standing Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation dies at the age of 75 - Parzinger: A veteran of the SPK The former Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Norbert Zimmermann, is dead. He died last week in Berlin at the age of 75. Zimmermann served the f

  8. Guelph Treasure - not Nazi-looted property (29.05.2009)

    The Guelph Treasure, the largest German church treasure owned by a public art collection, is preserved in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. The Prussian state purchased it from a consortium of dealers in 1935. In January 2008, the heirs of these dealers, who were Jewish, asked the Prussian Cultu

  9. Milestone reached in the refurbishment of the Pergamon Museum (04.12.2025)

    First construction phase structurally completed - Collection of Classical Antiquities, Museum of Islamic Art and Museum of the Ancient Near East furnish rooms - reopening in spring 2027 Construction work on the first phase of the Pergamon Museum will be completed at the end of the year. They include

  10. Nachklapp Symposium „Grüne Inventur“

    Nachklapp Symposium „Grüne Inventur“ Kultureinrichtungen im Wandel: Von der Klimabilanz zur nachhaltigen Transformation Im Rahmen des Projekts „Grüne Inventur“ veranstaltete die Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz am 27. Januar 2026 das Online-Symposium „Kultureinrichtungen im Wandel: Von der Klimabil