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The Ibero-American Institute (IAI) of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is the first German institution to receive the "Premio ASICOM-Universidad de Oviedo". It is being honoured for its outstanding educational and networking work on Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal. Hermann

From 28 April to 3 June 2009, the Freundeskreis Willy-Brandt-Haus e.V. is showing an exhibition to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War with the German invasion of Poland. An exhibition organised by the House of Encounters with History (Dom Spotkán z. Historia),

In 2011, the Coordination Centre for the Preservation of the Written Cultural Heritage (KEK) was founded as a federal States project and located at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. It is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) and the t

In February 2026, researchers, librarians, and data specialists came together at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) to reassess the role of knowledge infrastructures in international and interdisciplinary research in light of geopolitical tensions, debates over data sovereignty, and the acceler

The conference, organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation together with the MICHAEL partners, focused on the current state of digitisation and in particular the role of portals in the cultural and scientific sector in Germany and Europe. Over 400 participants from 26 countries came to t

The newly published conference proceedings bring together the contributions to the international symposium organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property to mark the tenth anniversary of the Washington Principles in December 2008.

The 2021 Annual Report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has just been published. SPK President Hermann Parzinger writes in the editorial that the past twelve months have been characterised above all by "a longing for normality". Despite the pandemic-related impositions, many visitors onc

What do Khrushchev, Martin Luther King and Mao Zedong have in common? Gerd Ruge was there to witness their rise and fall, and as an ARD correspondent, he brought the major historical events of the 20th century into West German living rooms. The estate of this legendary reporter, who died in 2021, wa

An international conference from 26 to 28 November 2018 in Berlin will be dedicated to the implementation of the Washington Principles on the Handling of Nazi-looted Property since their adoption in 1998. Around 800 participants, including leading experts, organisations, Holocaust survivors and thei

Ownership of disputed collections will be transferred to a foundation under private law - SPK gives up objects as part of a compensation scheme - Parzinger: Museum visitors stand to gain the most from this agreement On 26 May 2025, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,