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  1. Museums show solidarity with clubs (03.07.2020)

    SPOT // berlin art sessions is a new series of events starting in mid-July, in which DJ sessions are held exclusively at the museums and filmed. The video files are available for download worldwide. The SPK and its Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) bring you SPOT, organized jo

  2. museum4punkt0: Digital conference on new means of digital education (27.10.2020)

    At a digital conference on October 27–28, 2020, the museum4punkt0 joint project is presenting new means of digital education and interpretation in museums and discussing current issues of digitality. The museum4punkt0 joint project develops, tests, evaluates, and publishes tools that fit into the mu

  3. SPK mourns Adriaan von Müller (01.12.2021)

    The long-time director of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin passed away on November 28 at the age of 93. In the Cold War era, Adriaan von Müller, who was appointed director of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory and Early History) in 1

  4. Conference on the reassessment of colonial history (17.11.2021)

    In cooperation with the SPK and the Research Center for Material Culture of the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures, the German Lost Art Foundation is holding a digital conference on cultural assets from colonial contexts. The debate about returning cultural assets to former colonial areas is hi

  5. The Foundation’s Separate Publications

    The Foundation’s Separate Publications In addition to the regular publications like the yearbook and SPK Magazine, the President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz regularly publishes thematic and collection-based studies. They can be purchased from the Webshop and in the museum shops of the

  6. Restitutions: Works Restored to the Descendants of Carl Heumann (04.07.2022)

    Several German museums have returned a total of five works of art that originally belonged to the collection of Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann. On July 4, five works of art from several German museums were transferred to the heirs of Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann at the Städtische Galerie (Municipal Ga

  7. Sam Bardaouil und Till Fellrath named Directors of Hamburger Bahnhof (10.09.2021)

    The founders of the multidisciplinary curatorial platform Art Reoriented will jointly lead the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum for Contemporary Art – Berlin of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) as Directors from January 1, 2022 At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the

  8. Two Medieval Predella Panels Restituted (30.08.2019)

    The two predella panels were originally part of the collection of Jewish businessman Harry Fuld Sr. In 1940 they were bought for the Gemäldegalerie (Old Master Paintings) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Her

  9. Estate of Leni Riefenstahl donated to Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) (12.02.2018)

    Heiress donates comprehensive collection of original photographs, film material, manuscripts, letters, records, and documents – Kunstbibliothek and Staatsbibliothek to work through estate – cooperation with Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek being pursued – Parzinger: “The estate requires a special respon

  10. "Don't call me...": Joint Initiative Against Racism (10.05.2021)

    To mark Germany's Diversity Day on May 18, 2021, rbb, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are taking a visible stand against racism by projecting a social video series on the facade of the James Simon Gallery. Every day, people in Berlin and Brandenburg experie