Welcome! Charlottenburg Palace Gardens are a world-renowned garden ensemble. Please help us to preserve the park as a place of culture and recreation! The park is accessible to visitors from 8:00 am u
Welcome! Königs Wusterhausen Garden is a garden monument. Please help us to preserve the park as a place of culture and recreation! The park is accessible to visitors from 8:00 am until dusk. It is st
During their trip to America from 1799 to 1804, Alexander von Humboldt and his French colleague Aimé Bonpland spent several days at Mount Chimborazo in what is now Ecuador. In the foreground of the pa
The SPSG ceramic collection consists of around 3,500 East Asian porcelain objects and about 5,000 European porcelain works of art, and another 750 objects made of other ceramic materials. The SPSG als
Frederick William, the Elector of Brandenburg, is shown seated upon his horse like a god, with his head held high and no stirrups. This statue once stood on the bridge known as the Lange Brücke (now R
Prussia’s King Frederick the Great personally planned the design of this park rondel in 1746. Busts of a Roman emperor, a philosopher, and four Africans dressed in ancient garb were arranged in the ci
This portrait of Margrave Karl Friedrich Albrecht (1705–1762), painted around 1745, shows a composition that was frequently used at the time: the ruling nobleman – usually the person who commissioned
This painting, dated 1823, shows a Black boy in what seems to be North-African dress with a red fez, sitting at the gate to the garden of the Prinzessinnenpalais – with three long-haired hunting dogs
The story of the rape of the married and virtuous Lucretia by the king's son Tarquinius, her rebellion against her attacker and her subsequent suicide is part of the founding myth of the Roman Republi
Formally, the bean game is a narrow table with several rounded hollows. It can be played with beans, stones, grains, shells, small pebbles or other items. The moves are made using mathematical strateg
SPSG Works of Art Not Available for Loan The following works of art will not be loaned for historical, spatial, or conservation reasons; because of particular circumstances related to ownership; or be
Even today tens of thousands of objects are still missing! Among European art collections, the Prussian palaces have suffered some of the worst war losses. Most of the losses occurred through air raid
