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  1. National Museums in Berlin

    National Museums in Berlin Glimpses of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Multiteaser headline Bust of the Egyptian queen Nefertiti © SPK / Pierre Adenis The Menzel Room of the Alte Nationalgalerie © SPK / Pierre Adenis Storage facility for the collection of classical antiquities in the Archäologisches

  2. Visitor, User, and Inventory Figures for 2020

    Visitor, User, and Inventory Figures for 2020 The museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation had 1,163,800 visits in 2020. The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin registered 305,486 visits to the library and 28,000 registered users. The institutions of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussia

  3. Charlottenburg

    Charlottenburg In the years when Germany was divided, Charlottenburg was the home primarily for the Foundation’s archaeological collections. Since 1996, with the addition of the Museum Berggruen, and later with the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, a museum district for High Modernist art was established

  4. SPK Institutions

    SPK Institutions 25 institutions unite within the Foundation: museums, archives, libraries and research institutions The institutions include the museum, archive and library fields. They also include a variety of research institutes, the Gipsformerei (Replica Workshop), and the the bpk Bildagentur /

  5. Guidelines for the Treatment of Human Remains

    Guidelines for the Treatment of Human Remains Human remains in museum collections must be treated with special sensitivity. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is one of many museums that have human remains among their holdings. The SPK has established basic principles for dealing with human remains and

  6. Acquisitions

    Acquisitions New items enter the Foundation's collections in various ways. Besides federal and state government funding, assistance from private collectors, public and private charitable foundations, associations of friends, and other entities is essential. Unlike the museums, the libraries make a p

  7. President Mattarella of Italy visits the Museumsinsel (13.10.2021)

    Last stop of the state visit to Germany took in the Pergamon Museum and the Neues Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Mattarella delighted Yesterday afternoon the President of Italy, Sergio Mattarella, visited the Pergamon Museum and the Neues Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Natio

  8. Restitution to Alaska Natives (16.05.2018)

    Ethnological Museum returns grave goods to indigenous peoples from Southwestern Alaska and plans further co-operation with Chugach Alaska Corporation. On May 16, Hermann Parzinger, president of Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural heritage Foundation), handed over nine objects f

  9. Campaign Juxtaposes Old and New: "Finally open again for ..." Celebrates Museum Reopening (08.06.2021)

    The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Musikinstrumenten-Museum are finally open to the public again. They are wooing visitors with 21 different advertisements around the city and on social media. The hygienic measures imposed in response to the coronavirus pandemic are gradually being lifted, and

  10. Restrictions due to maintenance work (28.05.2024)

    June 5 to 9, 2024: Due to maintenance work, the IT accessibility of the SPK is severely restricted, individual areas of the facilities will remain closed during this time From Wednesday, June 5, up to and including Sunday, June 9, 2024, some websites of the SPK and its institutions will be unavailab