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).

  • Detail of an outrigger canoe from the Sepik estuary, New Guinea
    Outrigger canoe from the Sepik estuary, New Guinea, from the collection of the Ethnologisches Museum © SPK / photothek.net / Thomas Koehler

    Rehearsal for the Voyage to the Humboldt Forum

    03.07.2015 - Elaborately packaged and lifted by crane out through the window – with skillful handling and under the watchful eye of the scientists, a South Seas boat travels from the…

  • Front and back covers of the SPK Magazine issue no. 7 (opens enlarged image)
    Issue no. 7 (2015), theme: The Obliteration of World Heritage © Photograph: SPK / Torben Geeck

    New SPK Magazine: The Protection of Cultural Heritage

    29.06.2015 - The new issue of the SPK Magazine with reports from Syria and Iraq: Illegal excavation and trade are endangering the world’s cultural heritage. This issue examines the workings of…

  • Nandi, wooden model of a white Zebu (cattle), southern India
    Nandi, wooden model of a white Zebu (cattle), southern India © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum für Asiatische Kunst

    What is Coming to the Humboldt Forum?

    12.06.2015 - Beginning in 2019, outstanding collections of the art and culture of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and America will take up residence in the newly completed Humboldt Forum. The…

  • Panel discussion during the Conference on the Protection of Cultural Heritage
    Possible means of cooperation were discussed by (from left) Ursula Kampmann, Günther Schauerte, Siegmund Ehrmann, Friederike Fless, Jörg Ziercke, Jürgen Kunow, and Eckart Köhne © SPK / Torben Geek

    International Conference on the Protection of Cultural Heritage

    26.05.2015 - “Cultural Heritage in Danger: Illicit Excavations and Illegal Trade” was the subject under discussion in Berlin on 11 and 12 December 2014.

  • Alexander von Humboldt's American travel diaries
    The American travel diaries comprise nine volumes with a total of 4,000 closely written pages © Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – PK / Carola Seifert

    Alexander von Humboldt’s American Travel Diaries

    01.12.2014 - Alexander von Humboldt’s diaries are, besides his letters, the most important surviving original documents of his travels. At the end of 2013, the Stiftung Preussischer…