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Donation contract signed - Axel Marx: Our family remains connected to the art city of Berlin - Hermann Parzinger: Overwhelming gesture from the family The family of the well-known Berlin collector Erich Marx, who died two years ago, has donated the entire holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys

Three works from the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen restituted, one of which remains in the museum as a gift from descendants On Wednesday, 15 February 2023, the SPK restituted three works from the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to the heirs of the lawyer Ismar Lit

Multimedia archive planned to commemorate victims of Nazi persecution - life stories behind restitution cases - BKM provides 690,000 euros in funding In a three-year project, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation with its National Museums in Berlin and the Bavarian State Painting Collections wil

On 17 May 2022, the Goethe-Institut Angola presented the translation of the complete, multi-volume object list of the Angola collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin to the Angolan Ministry of Culture at a ceremony. In this way, the partners hope to contribute to greater transparency in the deba

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is becoming more female - this was confirmed by the Board of Trustees on Monday with its personnel decisions: Dr Anette Hüsch, currently Director of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, will take over as Director of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Be

Large parts of the Pergamon Museum will reopen in spring 2027. The Collection of Classical Antiquities and the Museum of Islamic Art will present their highlights in the north wing and central building. While construction work is still underway in some of their rooms, the antique artefacts are alrea

Prof Dr Verena Lepper, currently curator at the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection, is leaving Berlin for California. The 52-year-old Egyptologist and orientalist will head the Getty Villa in Los Angeles in future. The Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades is one of the two locations of the J. Paul G

At the end of 2025, the Director of the Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Prof Dr Andreas Scholl, will retire after more than twenty years in office. He will be succeeded by his current deputy, Dr Martin Maischberger. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foun

The SPK has restituted the painting "Eleonore von Wilke" by Lovis Corinth from the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie to the heirs of Ismar and Käthe Littmann. They subsequently donated it to the museum, where it will continue to be on display following the Corinth exhibition. Ismar Littmann (18

Historical plaster casts from the University of Jena came into the care of the Collection of Classical Antiquities in 1983. After around forty years, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has returned the collection to its place of origin. The collection of almost 400 plaster casts of ancient sc