Images

The image galleries illustrate the areas of activity of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. All the image galleries available on the website can be viewed here in the media library. Images are available for download in the press section of the website.

Museum of 20th Century
11.02.2016 - The Kulturforum is due to get a new building for a museum of the 20th century. Together with the refurbished Neue Nationalgalerie, it will form a closely integrated unit. The two…

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…
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 © 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…
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.
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…