Images

The image galleries illustrate the fields in which the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) is active. All of the image galleries on the website are available for viewing here in the media library. You can get images for downloading in the website's Press section, or from the bpk Bildagentur (Picture Agency bpk).

  • Hans Georg Wormit, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, 1962-1977
    Hans Georg Wormit served as the Foundation’s first President from April 1962 until June 1977. The post was titled “Curator” until 1967. Photo: Estate of Hans-Georg Wormit

    Die ehemaligen Präsidenten der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

    07.07.2016 - Die Geschäfte der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz wurden seit 1962 von drei Präsidenten geleitet: Hans-Georg Wormit, Werner Knopp und Klaus-Dieter Lehmann. Mit Peter Hofmann und…

  • Issue no. 8 (2016)
    Issue no. 8 (2016), cover feature: 25 years since the Prussian collections were reunited © SPK / Werner Amann

    SPK Magazine on the Reunification of the Prussian collections

    13.01.2016 - SPK Magazine no. 2/2015 marks the 25th anniversary of the reunification of the Prussian cultural heritage collections. Staff who experienced the historic events of that period tell…

  • Replicas of exhibition objects on display during the open days 2016
    Open days on 11. and 12. June 2016: Precise replicas of objects provided visitors with an impression of what will be on view in the Humboldt Forum © S. Müchler

    The Humboldt Forum in Fast Motion

    19.08.2015 - Not far from the Museumsinsel (Museum Island), a home for the cultures of the world is being created in the new Berliner Schloss (Berlin Palace). In June 2015, two years after the…

  • Bust of Queen Nefertiti
    Akhenaten and Nefertiti patronized portrait art in their royal city, Akhetaten © Ägyptisches Museum and Papyrussammlung, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / S. Steiß

    Nefertiti Celebrates Ten Years Back on the Museumsinsel

    12.08.2015 - Exactly ten years ago, on 12 August 2005, the bust of Nefertiti returned to the Museumsinsel (Museum Island) after decades spent in several other places in Berlin and the rest of…

  • Opening in a wall of the Pergamonmuseum
    From left: Barbara Große-Rhode (BBR), Günther Schauerte (SPK) and Christina Haak (SMB) in front of the half-completed opening in the Pergamonmuseum on 31 July 2015 © SPK / Birgit Jöbstl

    Breakthrough on the Museumsinsel

    31.07.2015 - In summer 2015, the breakthrough to the Pergamonmuseum is being completed. The new opening in the external wall allows visitors to pass directly from the James-Simon-Galerie to the…