Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation launches new research newsletter
Press release from 03/27/2020
Every two months, the SPK aims to provide information on the diversity of its research projects: from basic research to provenance research, from material research to perception research - the Prussian Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees supports the new format
The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz is launching a new research newsletter on 2 April 2020. The new format is intended to communicate the diversity of the SPK's research projects to a broad audience. The researchers behind the projects will also be presented in reports, portraits and interviews. "Our speciality is collection-based research, in all its breadth. With the new research newsletter, we want to show in a popular way how interesting basic and provenance research, material and perception research can be. Our researchers are extremely successful when it comes to acquiring third-party funding for projects. This new newsletter aims to show what happens with this. We know that science and research communication has to break new ground and so we have sought advice from the Helmholtz Association, Science in Dialogue and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research," says SPK President Hermann Parzinger.
The new research newsletter is supported by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees. "I don't think the general public is really aware of just how important the SPK really is as a research institution and the diversity of research being carried out in the five institutions. The new research newsletter aims to bring together many of these stories about all the exciting projects and present them to the famous culturally interested public. What we are realising in this difficult crisis: We are focussing on our strengths and research is experiencing an absolute revival," says Thorsten Strauß, Chairman of the Board of Trustees.