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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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Intensification of the long-term collaboration with the Marx Collection and strengthening of the "Hamburger Bahnhof" brand agreed (13.07.2007)

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the collector Erich Marx have now reached supplementary and selective new agreements as a sustainable basis for the future-oriented work of the "Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart". Accordingly, the Marx Collection will be curated exclusively by th

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over brick fragment from the 3rd millennium BC to Iraq (28.04.2015)

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today handed over a brick fragment from the 3rd millennium BC to Iraq. A private individual sent the valuable piece by post to the Vorderasiatisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in March 2015 and gave it to the museum as a gift for further safek

Research into the provenance of a historical collection of human remains from West Africa begins at SPK (14.09.2021)

The federal government is funding a three-year research project on human remains from West Africa at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History The collections of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin include 477 human skulls that were brought to Germany from W

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