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  1. Declaration on Accessibility

    Declaration on Accessibility This declaration on accessibility applies to the website of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) published at www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de. As a public body within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/2102, we strive to make ou

  2. Staatsbibliothek

    Staatsbibliothek Both of the Staatsbibliothek’s buildings have been subject to various construction and renovation measures for several years now. The concept of “One library in two buildings” is being implemented. Glass cube of the new general reading room of the Staatsbibliothek on Unter den Linde

  3. Construction Projects

    Construction Projects Some of the foundation's buildings have shaped Berlin's cityscape for centuries. Many of them are architecturally significant monuments. The further development of its sites and the preservation of its buildings are a central concern of the SPK. Until German reunification, the

  4. Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz statement on “Open letter: We demand free access to the museum inventories of African objects in Germany!” (17.10.2019)

    Anyone who is objectively involved with the work of museums in Germany knows that they go to great effort to disclose their holdings and create transparency. For the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK), the debate on the object biographies in African colle

  5. “If you have findings, then you have to act on them.” (12.02.2018)

    On February 12, 2018, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, talked to the Tagesspiegel about the Humboldt Forum, ways of dealing with objects from the colonial era, and provenance research. The Humboldt Forum is due to open at the end of 2019. It will enable the col

  6. SPK Foundation Board appoints new director of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin (30.06.2021)

    On June 29, 2021, the Board of Trustees of the SPK filled an important management position at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. As the successor of Michael Eissenhauer as director of the Gemäldegalerie (Old Master Paintings), they selected Dr. Dagmar Hirschfelder, who currently heads the paintings an

  7. First German Return of "Benin Bronzes" (01.07.2022)

    Commemorative head and relief plaque from the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin The collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin currently include more than 500 objects from the former Kingdom of Benin, which forms part of present-day Nigeria. In 1897,

  8. Bode Museum Coin Robbery: Parzinger Thanks the Berlin Police Force (17.07.2017)

    SPK President hopes for „further progress towards solving the case“ of the Big Maple Leaf The President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Foundation), Hermann Parzinger, has thanked the Berlin police force for its „excellent detective work into the burglary at the Bode Mus

  9. Notturno Concert Series

    Notturno Concert Series “Notturno” is a cooperation between the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the SPK. It combines evening chamber concerts in various buildings belonging to the Foundation with exclusive tours of its collections. Notturno Concert in the Alte Nationalgalerie with the brass

  10. "Kunst durch Kredit" – on the short article "Berliner Blamage" in DER SPIEGEL, issue 45/2017 (07.11.2017)

    The subject of Kunst durch Kredit [Art as collateral ] (De Gruyter, 2017) is the purchase of some 4,400 works of art from the holdings of the Dresdner Bank by the government of Prussia on behalf of the Berlin museums in 1935. The book's author, Lynn Rother, examines this deal in the context of art h