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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

Former Vice President dies at the age of 89 - Parzinger: Pioneering and formative figure, especially in times of reunification The former Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Peter Hofmann, is dead. He died in Berlin at the end of August at the age of 89. Hofmann served the S

Return of Benin bronzes from German museums embedded in broad-based cooperation in the field of museum exchange, new museum construction and archaeology - Memorandum of Understanding signed In addition to the return of artefacts from the historical Kingdom of Benin from German museums to Nigeria, mo

Gerhard Richter is donating an extensive collection of 100 works to the Nationalgalerie for the Nationalgalerie's Museum of the 20th Century. From 2023, works by the artist will initially be on display in the Neue Nationalgalerie and later in the new building at the Kulturforum - also in cooperation

As part of the exhibition and event project "Utopia Kulturforum", the St Matthew's Foundation, the Art Library, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the New National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library, the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation and the Ibero-American Institute

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

The Director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation talk about the Kulturforum and new challenges for museums after the pandemic Max Hollein was a child when his father, the architect Hans Hollein, was busy combining the Berlin Kulturf

museum4punkt0, the Germany-wide network for digital education led by the SPK, is continuing its projects in 2022. Since 2017, teams from a wide range of institutions have been developing and testing closely networked digital education programmes. A hybrid conference with a showcase on 1 and 2 Novemb

SPK returns "Une Place à la Roche-Guyon" by Camille Pissarro to the Dorville heirs and purchases it for the Alte Nationalgalerie The representatives of the Armand Dorville heirs visited the Alte Nationalgalerie today to sign the restitution and purchase agreement for the work. The work was acquired

Corona-related changes: Visitor numbers slumped as expected - creative potential unleashed, also in the digital world 33.6 million visits to German museums: 70% fewer than in the previous year The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 33,550,296 visits in 2020. This is a good two-t