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  1. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Sebastian Schmideler heads the children's and young adult book department (16.08.2024)

    Dr Sebastian Schmideler, currently a research assistant for children's and young adult literature and literary didactics at the University of Leipzig, will become the new head of the children's and young adult book department at the Berlin State Library on 2 September 2024. He succeeds Carola Pohlma

  2. The "Karlsruhe Sketchbook" by Caspar David Friedrich remains in Germany (12.07.2024)

    Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz succeed in joint acquisition - thanks to Kulturstiftung der Länder and Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung The "Karlsruhe Sketchbook" by Caspar David Friedrich is staying in Germany! The Klassik Stiftung We

  3. New directors for the SPK: Anette Hüsch comes to the Alte Nationalgalerie, Antje Scherner to the Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art (09.07.2024)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is becoming more female - this was confirmed by the Board of Trustees on Monday with its personnel decisions: Dr Anette Hüsch, currently Director of the Kunsthalle zu Kiel, will take over as Director of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Be

  4. Thanksgiving - cultural forum invites you to a table in the countryside (24.09.2024)

    After two successful "Days in the Green", the neighbours of the Kulturforum invite you to the Tafel im Grünen on 6 October 2024 and offer an extensive programme. As part of Museum Sunday, all the museums can be visited free of charge from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. This year, the Gemäldegalerie, Kupferstichk

  5. 10 MUSEUMS X 10 CONCERTS - Chamber Concerts of the DSO with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (12.09.2024)

    Start of the new series on Fri, 13 Sept. at the Museum of European Cultures Unique concerts by selected ensembles of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in unique venues of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) - that's what 10 MUSEEN X 10 KONZERTE offers. Since 2010, the DSO and th

  6. Federal budget strengthens SPK (11.09.2024)

    Parzinger: Federal Government significantly strengthens the SPK - thanks to Claudia Roth The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will be significantly strengthened in the 2025 federal budget. SPK President Hermann Parzinger thanked Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth and her organisation: "

  7. SPK intensifies cooperation with Colombia (30.10.2024)

    Kogi ritual artefacts to be united in Colombia - SPK Ethnological Museum intensifies cooperation with indigenous community and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History The Ethnological Museum of the SPK is intensifying its collaboration with the Colombian ICANH (Instituto Colombiano de An

  8. Far away, so close: The new SPK magazine is dedicated to the future of the Dahlem research centre (25.10.2024)

    What will become of Dahlem? From the idea of a "German Oxford" to a modern location for culture, research and teaching, the district in the south-west of Berlin has reinvented itself time and again as a museum location. 2024 is the year of Dahlem: the Geheime Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz ha

  9. The Nuba photographs and films in Leni Riefenstahl's estate: scholars from Germany and Sudan conduct joint research - symposium in Berlin (23.10.2024)

    In 2018, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation received the estate of the filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) as a gift. The holdings were divided up within the SPK according to academic expertise: Written material - Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Department of Manuscripts and H

  10. Nazi-looted art: SPK restitutes five works from the Gemäldegalerie (21.10.2024)

    Fair and equitable solution: SPK restitutes five works to the heirs of the owners of the Matthiesen Gallery - one work remains in the Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin In 1935, Dresdner Bank sold around 4,400 works of art to the Prussian state, which handed them over to the museums. Si