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  1. Cultural Forum: The Piazzetta becomes Johanna and Eduard Arnhold Square (04.11.2024)

    The former piazzetta at the entrance to the museums at the Kulturforum was today named after Johanna and Eduard Arnhold. This commemorates the Jewish couple who patronised art, culture and science during the imperial era and the Weimar Republic. With the naming of the square, the museums at the Kult

  2. Outstanding late Gothic Madonna figure acquired for Berlin sculpture collection (25.05.2009)

    With the support of the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz recently acquired a "Mother of God Enthroned" for the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. We invite you to the ceremonial handover in the Basilica of

  3. Humboldt Lab Tanzania - Shared object histories (03.07.2018)

    The "Humboldt Lab Tanzania" project and the closely related provenance research project "Tanzania-Germany: Shared Object Histories?" have been running at the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin since 2016. The museum worked together with actors from Tanzania on object histories of

  4. The new Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook has been published (21.12.2007)

    The 43rd volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook looks back on the significant events and developments of 2006. The reopening of the Bode Museum, formerly the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, was a glittering highlight of the year and at the same time a decisive step on the way to the restoration

  5. Second issue of the SPK magazine, which has won international awards, has been published (30.06.2010)

    The SPK magazine, first published in autumn 2009, is now in its second issue. second issue. The current issue focusses on the topic "Future". The first magazine won prizes in two of the most important international competitions in the public relations and corporate communications sector. At the "Int

  6. Lost Etruscan warrior statuette returned to the Collection of Classical Antiquities (28.02.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recovered a valuable Etruscan bronze statuette that was thought to have been lost since the Second World War. The depiction of a spear-throwing man with a helmet, which had been part of the antiquities collection since 1869, was recently identified in th

  7. Pop-up vaccination centre at the Kulturforum (18.01.2022)

    From 20 to 23 January 2022, vaccinations will take place in the foyer of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the Kulturforum. Vaccination protects - including culture. That's why the SPK and Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH will be setting up a pop-up vaccination centre at the Kulturforum (Matthäikirchplatz

  8. Parzinger on the corona crisis: All institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will suspend their public operations from Saturday (14 March 2020) until further notice (12.03.2020)

    The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, explains the corona crisis: "The spread of the corona virus has also had a profound impact on Berlin's cultural life. The warnings of the medical profession to ensure that social contacts are reduced to an absolute minimu

  9. Visitor figures for the museums in 2005 (21.12.2006)

    The Institute for Museum Research at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz, together with the German Museums Association, has published the overall statistical survey of museums in the Federal Republic of Germany for the year 2005. The survey provides information on visitor number

  10. With more than 109 million visits in 2006, interest in museums and exhibition centres remains high (21.12.2007)

    The Institute for Museum Research at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz has statistically analysed the visitor figures collected at museums throughout Germany as well as other data for 2006 and published them in a publication. Museums in Germany recorded a total of 102,645,078