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PREP – German-American Provenance Research Exchange Program for Museum Professionals 2017-2019
18.10.2016 - The German-American exchange program PREP was established by the SPK and the Smithsonian Institution to foster the formation of networks between provenance researchers in both…
Important donation: Egidio Marzona adds to his “encyclopaedia of the art of the 60s and 70s”
14.10.2016 - The collector has once again surprised the Kunstbibliothek of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin with a large donation. The books and posters complement the existing Marzona…
Reconsidering Schinkel’s Academy of Architecture
11.10.2016 - Beginning in 2019, the Humboldt Forum will showcase the cultures of the world – but where in Berlin can museum-goers actually experience architecture? The SPK’s president, Hermann…
Setting Course for the Future: A New Project to Study Relations between the EU, Latin America, and the Caribbean
17.08.2016 - What is the state of relations between EU and CELAC as regional blocs on either side of the Atlantic? This question is being explored by a team of experts in an EU project called…
New Website for the New Museum Building at the Kulturforum
10.08.2016 - Over the next few years, a new museum building for twentieth-century art will rise at the Kulturforum. The new website will follow the design and construction process up until the…
They Call Him “Mohammed Concrete”
29.07.2016 - Mohammed's home, Syria, lies in ruins, but he still believes in the future. To symbolize it, he has made a wing of concrete for the exhibition "daHEIM – glances into fugitive…
The Songs of the Germans: What is really behind the SPK's initiative?
28.07.2016 - Replace the “Song of the Germans”? Do away with the national anthem? Just sweep unity and justice and freedom under the carpet of history? No, that is not what the Foundation is…
Postscript to the International Conference on Syria: Why Ruins Can Help People
30.06.2016 - Palmyra has been freed, but the civil war continues – and with it the threat to Syria's cultural heritage. To discuss its protection, UNESCO convened a conference of experts in…
Restitution to Freemasons – “Forgotten Victims of National Socialism”
27.06.2016 - In June 2016, the Foundation returned 384 books to a Masonic lodge. The SPK has previously returned other works to these “forgotten victims” of National Socialism
Why People Need Stones
26.05.2016 - Pictures of the destruction of Palmyra, a world heritage site, have made the need for cultural heritage protection clear to all. Markus Hilgert, Director of the Vorderasiatisches…