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  1. Personnel changes on the Board of Trustees: Barbara Helwing becomes Director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East, Claudia Martin-Konle takes over the State Library's user department (18.12.2018)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, today unanimously made far-reaching personnel decisions for the National Museums in Berlin and the Berlin State Library The Museum of the Ancient Near East at the Staatliche

  2. New website for the State Institute for Music Research: fresher, more user-friendly, more up-to-date (10.02.2021)

    New layout, new structure, new content - the website of the State Institute for Music Research www.simpk.de has been completely relaunched. The new website of the State Institute for Music Research has been online for a few days now. With its completely revised structure and new design, it is much c

  3. Database, capacity building, dark field research: how the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation supports the protection of cultural property in Syria (01.06.2016)

    On the occasion of the International Meeting of Experts on the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Syria, which is taking place from 2 to 4 June 2016 at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says: "If one day the guns fall s

  4. The Nuba photographs and films in Leni Riefenstahl's estate: scholars from Germany and Sudan conduct joint research - symposium in Berlin (23.10.2024)

    In 2018, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation received the estate of the filmmaker and photographer Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003) as a gift. The holdings were divided up within the SPK according to academic expertise: Written material - Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Department of Manuscripts and H

  5. Markus Hilgert appointed new director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East in Berlin (18.06.2013)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today unanimously appointed Professor Dr Markus Hilgert, born in 1969, as the new Director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East at the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. He succeeds Professor Dr Beate Salje, w

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over two paintings from the former armoury collection to the German Historical Museum (13.08.2015)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over two paintings from the former armoury collection to the German Historical Museum The German Historical Museum has received two paintings from the collections of the Zeughaus back from the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer

  7. SPK intensifies cooperation with the University of Oxford (10.09.2018)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and University of Oxford sign Memorandum of Understanding to deepen strategic partnership The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will work more closely with the University of Oxford in the areas of conservation, digitisation, research, exhibitions and visitor

  8. Priorities of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in 2023 (16.02.2023)

    Annual reception at the Pergamonmuseum - Parzinger: "We will resolve the reform backlog and enable the institutions to take on more responsibility and autonomy - but at the same time further develop the SPK foundation network. At the annual reception on Wednesday evening, the institutions of the Pru

  9. Call for Participation: SPK Lab in Search of Project Partners! (22.04.2022)

    The SPK Lab is looking for users of cultural heritage data who can help us draw up and implement new formats to encourage use of the digital material in our collections and holdings, whether by scholars, artists, or others working outside academia. Would you like to help us find the best ways of mak

  10. Annual press conference 2017 (08.02.2017)

    For the first time outside the Villa von der Heydt: at the 2017 annual press conference at the Altes Museum, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presented its plans for the coming year. SPK President and the directors of the five institutions gave an outlook and took stock The Prussian Cultura