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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…
The "Nefertiti Hack" – Is It a Hoax?
09.03.2016 - In the art intervention The Other Nefertiti, two artists have published a 3D model of the bust of Nefertiti online – because, they say, the bust and its data are not accessible.…
The Simons – A Journey of Discovery
23.02.2016 - One of the Foundation’s greatest patrons was James Simon. His great-granddaughter, an award-winning American filmmaker, wants to learn more, and to tell her family's forgotten…
Getting to the Bottom of Art: Works by Caspar David Friedrich, Layer by Layer
22.01.2016 - The Alte Nationalgalerie has undertaken a thorough restoration of the paintings Monk by the Sea and The Abbey in the Oakwood. Ina Reiche, head of the Rathgen-Forschungslabor,…
ICOM and SPK present German Version of the Red List of Iraqi Cultural Objects at Risk
13.01.2016 - ICOM has updated its Emergency Red List of Iraqi Cultural Objects at Risk. On January 14, 2016, the German version will be presented at the Archäologisches Zentrum of the…