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  1. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Relaunched: Better Features, More Content, New Search Options (20.04.2023)

    From May 2023, the website of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (DDB) will have even more cultural treasures to discover. The DDB now has more than 45 million cultural objects on virtual display from the digital collections of approximately 780 cultural and knowledge institutions. The Deutsche Digita

  2. How Can Knowledge Infrastructures Be Decolonized? Epistemic Dialogs at the IAI (26.09.2022)

    New perspectives on knowledge circulation and library infrastructure were discussed at international workshops held by Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America) at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. From September 12 to 16, 2022, two separate but related workshops

  3. How Can Knowledge Infrastructures Be Decolonized? Epistemic Dialogs at the IAI (26.09.2022)

    New perspectives on knowledge circulation and library infrastructure were discussed at international workshops held by Mecila (Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America) at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. From September 12 to 16, 2022, two separate but related workshops

  4. The Guelph Treasure - SPK clarifies remaining questions (05.02.2025)

    The SPK comments on the current reports on the Guelph Treasure case as follows: The SPK has explained to the Advisory Commission that it would agree to the case being referred to it, provided that the requirements are clarified in accordance with the Rules of Procedure. In order to achieve this, it

  5. Call for Participation: SPK Lab in Search of Project Partners! (22.04.2022)

    The SPK Lab is looking for users of cultural heritage data who can help us draw up and implement new formats to encourage use of the digital material in our collections and holdings, whether by scholars, artists, or others working outside academia. Would you like to help us find the best ways of mak

  6. We are appalled by this horrific crime (13.10.2023)

    Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) condemn terrorist attack on Israel – Joint Statement The Deutsches Historisches Museum and the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz are stunned by the attack on Israel.

  7. Parzinger: Benin Bronzes Must Be Publicly Exhibited (09.05.2023)

    SPK president reacts to media reports that Nigeria’s departing President Buhari has transferred ownership of all objects to Oba Ewuare II, the successor to the kings of Benin. Last December, Foreign Minister Baerbock and the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, returned the

  8. museum4punkt0: Developing and Sharing Digital Outreach Applications (24.06.2022)

    Twenty-seven projects organized by a variety of museums throughout Germany demonstrate the range of possibilities for digital cultural outreach At a show of work in progress held today in Berlin, institutions participating in the digital outreach project museum4punkt0 presented an overview of the ap

  9. Art, Looting, and Restitution – Forgotten Life Stories (23.02.2023)

    The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Bayerische Staatsgemä-ldesammlungen, together with broadcasters rbb and BR, commemo-rate the victims of Nazi plunder – joint project tells forgotten life sto-ries of Jewish people based on cases of restitution – launch event in the Bode Museum – Minister

  10. Purchase of Hamburger Bahnhof and Rieckhallen Complete (15.11.2022)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz comments on the purchase of Hamburger Bahnhof and the neighboring Rieckhallen buildings by the German federal and Berlin state governments. “What wonderful news, a real triumph of cultural policy! The fact that the federal govern