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The new Bauakademie will be an example of sustainability in architecture The reconstructed version of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s former Bauakademie (Building Academy) in the historical center of Berlin will be “an outstanding example of architectural innovation and environmental, economic and social

A retrospective tracing the impact of the influential designer up to the present is being arranged by the Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstbibliothek of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in collaboration with the Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle. On

The figures published in the DFG's latest survey of funding highlight the importance of the SPK for Germany as a center of research. The Förderatlas 2021, published by the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) (DFG), collates the key figures for the public funding of research

The SPK has recently returned a friendship album to the Luther Memorials Foundation. It dates from the Reformation era and contains an entry by Philipp Melanchthon. It will become part of the permanent exhibition at the Lutherhaus in Wittenberg, from where it was stolen in 1976. Until it was stolen,

A new media station in the Alte Nationalgalerie and an online portal with recent research results on the Mosse Collection were launched today in the presence of Roger Strauch, president of the Mosse Foundation. One year ago, the Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI) was launched. The aim of MARI is t

The Goal and Significance of Germany’s Most Important Cultural Project at the Beginning of the 21st Century. By Hermann Parzinger The President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) presents the opportunities of the Humboldt Forum project for Berlin and it

SPK is closely observing current developments concerning COVID-19 and has set up a crisis team for this purpose. Details on the handling in the individual museums, libraries and archives of SPK can be found on their websites. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is closely monitoring the dynami

Former Presidents and Vice Presidents Beginning in 1962, there are four former presidents of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz: Hans-Georg Wormit, Werner Knopp, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann and Hermann Parzinger. There are three former vice presidents: Peter Hofmann, Norbert Zimmermann and Günther Scha

At its annual reception in 2022 at the James-Simon-Galerie, the Foundation introduced several new faces and its plans for the future. On April 27, 2022, the SPK held its annual reception. The event took place in James-Simon-Galerie, where member institutions shared a glimpse of this year's activitie

Alexander von Humboldt’s diaries are, besides his letters, the most important surviving original documents of his travels. At the end of 2013, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) acquired Humboldt’s American travel diaries. This purchase was made possible b