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  1. “It’s part of history – let’s tell the story!” (26.03.2026)

    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

  2. “It’s part of history – let’s tell the story!” (26.03.2026)

    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

  3. In the lens of the enemy. The German photojournalists in occupied Warsaw 1939-1945 (27.04.2009)

    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),

  4. The KEK celebrates its anniversary! 10 years of coordinated original preservation in Germany (10.03.2021)

    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

  5. 50 years of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: a great success story (24.07.2007)

    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

  6. Ibero-American Institute receives international award for outstanding mediation and networking work (09.10.2014)

    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

  7. "Knowledge by Networking / Wissen durch Vernetzung. Digitisation of cultural assets in Germany and Europe" (25.06.2007)

    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

  8. Conference proceedings "Taking responsibility" have been published (11.06.2009)

    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.

  9. How do we build the future?" Annual report 2021 describes the internal change at SPK (30.06.2022)

    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

  10. A witness to the times: what Gerd Ruge’s estate reveals (30.03.2026)

    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