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  1. Foundation Board strengthens SPK's construction planning (02.12.2013)

    The Board of Trustees discussed the entire building programme of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in detail today. Financing and prioritisation were also discussed. As a result, it should be noted: The Board of Trustees expressly supports the projects included in the Foundation's catalogue

  2. Bernhard Weisser appointed new director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin (05.12.2014)

    Prof. Dr Bernhard Weisser will become Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage on 1 June 2015. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foundation Board today. Weisser has been acting Director of the Coin Cabinet since the end of Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge

  3. Parzinger: SPK will permanently commemorate the horrors and effects of the propaganda exhibition "Degenerate Art" (19.07.2017)

    According to its President Hermann Parzinger, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will permanently commemorate the National Socialists' defamatory and denunciatory "Degenerate Art" campaign. Exactly 80 years ago today, on 19 July 1937, the associated propaganda exhibition was opened in Munich.

  4. Provenance Research Day at the SPK (07.04.2020)

    The second International Day of Provenance Research will take place on 8 April 2020. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin have prepared numerous online contributions to provide an insight into the work of provenance researchers. Unfortunately, the planned events have ha

  5. SPK decides to return two Toi moko (02.09.2020)

    There are two mummified heads of face-tattooed Māori men (Toi moko) in the collections of the Ethnological Museum. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), to which the Ethnological Museum belongs, will return them to New Zealand. In autumn 2019, the Museum of New Zealand asked Te Papa Tonga

  6. Construction work begins on the Nationalgalerie's Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum (18.11.2020)

    Work is currently starting on site for the Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum. The Haus der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin is being built according to plans by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Several measures are necessary to prepare the area for the construction work. The southbound l

  7. Until 14 September: Season of the Kolonnaden Bar on Museum Island is extended (28.08.2025)

    Due to its great success and the good weather, SPK, the Berlin Vagabund brewery and visitBerlin want to run Berlin's most beautiful summer venue for a fortnight longer - Kolonnaden-Bar opens every Wednesday to Sunday from 2pm and 4pm to 10pm The Colonnade Bar is the summer hit par excellence! Due to

  8. Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart receives 166 works of contemporary art as a donation from Friedrich Christian Flick (19.02.2008)

    Today in Berlin, the art collector Friedrich Christian Flick and the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Klaus-Dieter Lehmann signed a contract for the donation of 166 outstanding works by 44 contemporary artists. It is the result of the constructive and successful collaboration b

  9. A big step towards the Humboldt Forum (28.11.2008)

    Francesco Stella (Vicenza) wins architectural competition - unanimous decision by the jury The three partners of the Humboldt Forum, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), are delighted that an outstanding basis ha

  10. Scientific research confirms art-scientific image analysis - A relief from the Egyptian Museum Berlin and the current DNA analysis of the mummy of Tutankhamun (17.02.2010)

    The results of the DNA analysis of Tutankhamun's mummy just published by Zahi Hawass, Director General of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, have a direct connection to the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin. One of the most famous exhibits is the relief "Walk in the Garden", c. 1330