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  1. Joachim Jäger appointed Deputy Director of the National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin. Andreas Richter becomes the new Head of the Collection Development Department of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage (12.12.2011)

    At its meeting on 9 December 2011, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected Dr Joachim Jäger as the new Deputy Director of the Nationalgalerie and Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Jäger, born in Munich in 1963, hol

  2. "Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977" by Joseph Beuys will be presented in Berlin in future - as a new permanent loan from Erich Marx to the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (24.02.2015)

    The world-famous environment "Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977" by Joseph Beuys, which is considered one of his key works, is coming to Berlin. The collector Erich Marx is donating the work to the collection of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin as a permanent loan. The complex spatial

  3. Refugees as guides on Berlin's Museum Island Staatliche Museen zu Berlin der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and Deutsches Historisches Museum launch "Multaka: Treffpunkt Museum" pilot project (10.12.2015)

    A total of 19 refugees from Syria and Iraq are being trained as museum guides so that they can lead compatriots through the Pergamon Museum, the Bode Museum and the German Historical Museum in their native language. The title of the project is programmatic: "Multaka" means "meeting point" in Arabic

  4. Haus Bastian on Berlin's Museum Island is being officially handed over to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today. From the summer, forward-looking educational concepts of the National Museums in Berlin will be developed and trialled there. (12.03.2019)

    During the ceremonial handover of the keys, Foundation President Hermann Parzinger and Director General Michael Eissenhauer thanked Céline, Heiner and Aeneas Bastian for their extraordinarily generous gift. The building on Kupfergraben, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, has been dedicated t

  5. SPK and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin cooperate with Saxony-Anhalt: furniture designer Erich Dieckmann to be honoured with exhibition in Halle and Berlin in 2022 (12.05.2021)

    Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin as well as Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle to launch the rediscovery of the Bauhäusler in spring 2022 - Saxony-Anhalt's Minister of Culture Robra hands over funding decisio

  6. Unearthed: the Real Relationship between Berlin and the Berliner Schloss (21.12.2016)

    For years, the Berliner Schloss has been at the center of numerous debates. Alongside the issue of the Humboldt-Forum, discussion has primarily centered on one question: should it be rebuilt, or not? Those who oppose reconstructing the building argue that this would cover up the traces of recent his

  7. Others have a suitcase; Weimar has a whole room in Berlin (30.03.2026)

    Berlin isn’t the centre of the universe – there are exciting exhibition projects in other federal states too, for example in Thuringia. To introduce these to Berliners, the ‘Weimar Room’ has now been officially opened at the State Library on Unter den Linden

  8. Others have a suitcase; Weimar has a whole room in Berlin (30.03.2026)

    Berlin isn’t the centre of the universe – there are exciting exhibition projects in other federal states too, for example in Thuringia. To introduce these to Berliners, the ‘Weimar Room’ has now been officially opened at the State Library on Unter den Linden

  9. Descendants of Mangi Molelia in Berlin (19.02.2026)

    On 2 March 1900, German colonial troops publicly executed 19 leading figures from the local communities in Old Moshi in the Kilimanjaro region. The event has left a deep mark on the area to this day. One of those murdered was Mangi Molelia, the young leader of Kibosho; his brother and another relati

  10. First meeting of the SPK International Advisory Board in Berlin (20.03.2026)

    On 18 March, the International Advisory Board of the SPK met to agree on fundamental principles of cooperation and key topics. SPK President Marion Ackermann welcomed the members in Berlin The International Advisory Board will advise and support the SPK’s management on key social and cultural policy