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2017 is fully dedicated to the Reformation. The world is celebrating this historical event 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg and initiated one of the greatest religious upheavals in the history of humankind. The museums of the SPK are participat

Gerhard Richter is making an important selection of 100 works available for the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century), which forms part of the Nationalgalerie. Works by the artist will be on display in the Neue Nationalgalerie from 2023 onward, and after that in the new building a

Köpenick In the Treptow-Köpenick District of Berlin, there is an annex of the Kunstgewerbemuseum. The central storage location for the Foundation’s institutions is being built there as well. Schloss Köpenick: The Annex of the Kunstgewerbemuseum Schloss Köpenick (Köpenick Palace) was used from 1963 o

Vladimir Matveyev's gift to the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is valuable in more than one way: the two-ruble gold coin of Catherine the Great completes the set of coins from her reign. The permanent exhibition at the Münzkabinett (Coin Cabinet) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (

In the art intervention The Other Nefertiti, two artists have published a 3D model of the bust of Nefertiti online – because, they say, the bust and its data are not accessible. How true is that claim? Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al-Badri say on their website that they made the scan in the Neues Mus

The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung and the Musikinstrumenten-Museum are breaking new ground in outreach – Conny Restle and Thomas Ertelt talk to us about sonorous objects, Beethoven the freelancer, and the parking lot. The digital museum guide at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum (Museum of Music

Publications The Foundation and its institutions publish around a hundred books and other print products annually. The spectrum of publications also includes CD series and online editions of specific holdings. Our exhibition catalogs, museum guides and children’s books, most of which are lavishly il

Grant Program of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz has established its own grant program. Each year, it welcomes approximately thirty visiting scholars from across the world and makes it possible for them to pursue their research at one of the Foundation’s

Voluntary Social Year You can do your Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr (Voluntary Social Year) at the Foundation. There are positions available at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Two women doing their Voluntary Social Year in Culture at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin c

Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI, Ibero-American Institute) on the report of the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) and the further reform process of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) The Scie