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  1. Foundation Board

    Foundation Board The Foundation Board is the foundation's highest political decision-making body. It represents the federal government and the federal states. It elects the president and approves the annual budget. The duties and composition of the Foundation Board are regulated by law and in the Fo

  2. 1500 masterpieces for the Berlin Museum of Islamic Art (10.06.2009)

    Today, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is signing a contract at the Pergamonmuseum for an extensive permanent loan of the de Unger Collection. The collector Edmund de Unger is represented by his lawyer and his son Richard de Unger. Edmund de Unger's collect

  3. Museum Island receives temporary exhibition building "Pergamonmuseum. The Panorama" (09.11.2016)

    In order to be able to offer visitors to Berlin's Museum Island an attractive programme during the renovation of the Pergamon Museum, the SPK is erecting a temporary exhibition building. It will be built directly opposite the Museum Island on Kupfergraben and next to the railway line. Visitors will

  4. SPK restitutes five works from the Ueberall Collection (20.05.2019)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted five works from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin to the heirs of the art dealer Heinrich Ueberall. The works had come to the museums in the course of a purchase by the Dresdner Bank in 1935. Heinrich Ueberall died in Sachsenha

  5. Sculpture collection - documentation of losses (31.07.2007)

    Since the reunification of the Berlin collections under the umbrella of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, recovered relocation documents have been analysed. This has made it possible to systematically record and document the losses from the period of the Second World War and the occupation

  6. Sculpture in the National Gallery that was thought to have been lost during the war is found again (05.12.2011)

    A 19th-century sculpture that had been thought lost since the end of the war has been found on the grounds of the American Academy in Berlin-Wannsee. It is owned by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and is part of the collection of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin. In 2

  7. The James-Simon-Galerie will open on 12 July 2019 - in the presence of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (26.03.2019)

    Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel will officially open the new James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin's Museum Island on 12 July. An action day of the National Museums in Berlin is then planned for 13 July. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says: "With her commitment t

  8. Photo session for the new acquisition of 34 cabinet orders of Frederick the Great to his saviour at the Battle of Kunersdorf (29.03.2019)

    Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage Archivstraße 12-14, 14195 Berlin 12 April 2019, 10:00 a.m. The Battle of Kunersdorf on 12 August 1759 was the most serious defeat in the Seven Years' War that Frederick the Great had to endure. He himself only narrowly escaped death or at least cap

  9. 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

  10. 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,