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Sponsorship and Financing The federal government and all the states finance the Foundation and also work together on its committees. Together they care for the holdings and the development of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. The federal structure of the Foundation underscores the importance o

The 42 objects of the so-called Welfenschatz (Guelph Treasure) in the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) have been the subject of a restitution request since April 2008. The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) has carried out extensive research since

In June 2016, the Foundation returned 384 books to a Masonic lodge. The SPK has previously returned other works to these “forgotten victims” of National Socialism Speaking at the handover ceremony, Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, pointed out that: “It was not only Jews that were persecuted,

Prussian Secret State Archives Glimpses of the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz Multiteaser headline Restoration of a map from the Gudwallen office of East Prussia from the eighteenth century © SPK / Pierre Adenis Restoring missing fragments of a document from the Prussian Ministry of

Using this Website The website of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz is easy to use. Below you will find a few tips on using the many features of the site as well as information regarding accessibility. Design for All (In Information and Communications Technology) The Stiftung Preussischer Kultu

Museum of 20th Century The Kulturforum is getting a new building: a museum of twentieth-century art. Along with the "Mies building", it will enable the Nationalgalerie to show its major collection of twentieth-century art in a coherent form at last. An architectural model of the Kulturforum shows th

The Staatliche Institut für Musikforschung is the secret star of the new Netflix series "Unorthodox" – so before your next binge-watching session, why not check out what the institute itself has to offer online? By Julia Spinola If you’re planning on binge-watching Netflix to forget the pandemic aft

One of the Foundation’s greatest patrons was James Simon. His great-granddaughter, an award-winning American filmmaker, wants to learn more, and to tell her family's forgotten history in a documentary. Chris Simon is a little surprised. Almost everyone in Berlin seems to know more about her great-gr

A project to establish the origins of East African human remains starts in October 2017 at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (MVF) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Bernhard Heeb, curator of the MVF and manager of the project, explains why the museum has a skull collection and how it is being

Berlin State Library Glimpses of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Multiteaser headline General reading room of the Staatsbibliothek building on Unter den Linden © SPK / Pierre Adenis Illustration from the Papilio Rumanzovia by Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz © SPK / Pierre Adenis General reading room of