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- The spoken word prevails - Salutations, In the long shared history of Germany and Russia, the past 20th century was undoubtedly a special one with very dark but also brighter days. There was unimaginable suffering and inconceivable crimes that emanated from German soil and were committed in German

The spring issue of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte will be published on 22 February 2021 with the title "Kolonialwaren". The magazine is jointly edited by Ulrike Gleixner, Alexandra Kemmerer, Michael Matthiesen and SPK President Hermann Parzinger . The editors have this to say about the announc

To mark International Provenance Research Day 2025, the Kupferstichkabinett offered an insight into the eventful history of its own collection. Curator Andreas Schalhorn and provenance researcher Sven Haase from the Central Archive led a tour of the exhibition “Kosmos Blauer Reiter: From Kandinsky t

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is not only responsible for preserving, maintaining and supplementing the cultural assets entrusted to it, but also, as the Foundation Act of 1957 states, "to ensure that these cultural assets are utilised for the interests of the general public in science a

10 years of the German-Russian Museum Dialogue (DRMD): around two hundred directors and curators of Russian and German museums affected by war-related losses will meet in Berlin on 16 and 17 November to deepen their long-standing cooperation and discuss new projects. We cordially invite you to the f

For the 2022 Annual Report, we invited cultural correspondents to spend a day exploring places they long to visit, their favourite venues, and the worlds of archives, libraries and collections. We set few parameters; we weren’t looking for courtly reporting, but rather insights and inspiration. Ever

For the 2022 Annual Report, we invited cultural correspondents to spend a day exploring places they long to visit, their favourite venues, and the worlds of archives, libraries and collections. We set few parameters; we weren’t looking for courtly reporting, but rather insights and inspiration. Ever

The exhibition “From Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism. Provenances of the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection” at the Neue Nationalgalerie impressively demonstrates the fascinating connections that provenance research brings to light. A conversation with the exhibition’s curator

Every two years, historians from the “International Historical Commission for the Study of the Teutonic Order” gather for an international conference. From 19 to 21 September 2024, it took place for the first time at the Secret State Archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (GStA). Also

On 25 July 1957, the law on the establishment of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation was passed by the German Bundestag. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, emphasised: "The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) is a great success story. Th