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On July 7, the guests toured the Humboldt Forum and on the next day they visited the storage facility in Dahlem containing objects from Benin. On a visit to Berlin, the Nigerian partners and Sir David Adjaye, the architect of the Edo State Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) being built in Benin Cit

The Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Berlin-based performance artist Ben Wagin commemorate an art intervention from 1976 with the planting of three trees in the outdoor space of the Neue Nationalgalerie. In 1976, performance artist Ben Wagin planted two black pines at the Neue

Rathgen-Forschungslabor The internationally networked Rathgen-Forschungslabor examines objects ranging from ancient times to the present day. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to clarifying matters of preservation, material, origin, and forgery. The seated figure of Hetepnjaus from the Ägyptisc

Kunst, Raub und Rückgabe Das Erinnerungsprojekt „Kunst, Raub und Rückgabe – Vergessene Lebensgeschichten“ erzählt von verlorener Kunst und von Juden und Jüdinnen, die einst das Kulturleben Deutschlands entscheidend geprägt haben, die aber von den Nationalsozialisten verfemt, entrechtet, verfolgt, au

Working with collections: the Freie Universität Berlin and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz enter into a strategic partnership. This is of crucial importance to the Dahlem Research Campus. Multimedia collections lie at the focus of the strategic partnership between the Freie Universität Berlin

SPK Foundation Board appoints Dagmar Hirschfelder as the successor of Michael Eissenhauer as director of the Gemäldegalerie SPK Foundation Board decided on June 29, 2021: Dr. Dagmar Hirschfelder, who currently heads the paintings and graphics department of the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg, wi

The Alte Nationalgalerie has undertaken a thorough restoration of the paintings Monk by the Sea and The Abbey in the Oakwood. Ina Reiche, head of the Rathgen-Forschungslabor, speaks to us about the analysis process, some hidden layers of varnish, and the broad range of techniques she uses. Over the

SPK President Hermann Parzinger took the visit as an opportunity to thank the federal states for their commitment to the work of the Foundation. At the invitation of Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller and President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundatio

Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung As part of the collaboration with the Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung, objects of art and cultural assets from the holdings of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz are studied scientifically. The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung

To combat the COVID pandemic, stricter protective measures have been introduced on SPK premises: 2G, FFP2 mask and (in some cases) prior registration Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 2G for the museums : entry to the museums (incl. participation in guided tours, workshops and other events inside the muse