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  1. Welfenschatz: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appeals against admissibility decision (21.04.2017)

    In February 2015, a U.S. federal district court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., for the return of the Guelph Treasure (Philipp and Stiebel v. Federal Republic of Germany and Stiftung Preußischer Cultural Heritage). The SPK is of the opinion that this action

  2. Johann Herzberg becomes Chief Information Officer for SPK (16.06.2020)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation gets a Chief Information Officer - Digital transformation is progressing In recent years, the SPK has taken numerous steps to develop further in the area of digitalisation. Since 2017, new measures have been initiated and a digital strategy developed for SPK

  3. Restitution marks the start of cooperation between the Luther Memorials Foundation and the Berlin State Library of the SPK (17.01.2022)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned a friendship album from the Reformation period with an entry by Philipp Melanchthon to the Luther Memorials Foundation in Saxony-Anhalt. In the Luther House in Wittenberg, where it was stolen in 1976, it will once again be part of the perma

  4. Let the competitions begin! The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition for Singing and String Quartet starts on 15 January 2020 (15.01.2020)

    On 15 January 2020, the public competitions of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will begin on 15 January 2020. subjects of singing and string quartet. To kick things off 15 January there will also be an espresso concert with the first prize winner of the competition 2019 will t

  5. Thanksgiving - cultural forum invites you to a table in the countryside (24.09.2024)

    After two successful "Days in the Green", the neighbours of the Kulturforum invite you to the Tafel im Grünen on 6 October 2024 and offer an extensive programme. As part of Museum Sunday, all the museums can be visited free of charge from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. This year, the Gemäldegalerie, Kupferstichk

  6. Gender policies in regional integration processes: Students from Colombia as guests at the IAI (10.07.2025)

    On July 1, a group of students from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, visited the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI). As part of a DAAD-supported stay in Germany, they learned about the scientific activities of the IAI. The students received information on the IAI's diverse

  7. Germany's oldest classical music competition reinvents itself - winners of the composition category announced (10.12.2012)

    Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition 2013 organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the Rectors' Conference of German Music Universities and the Berlin University of the Arts In 2013, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition will take place for the first tim

  8. Friends of the Museum Berggruen founded - plans to expand the museum (16.07.2007)

    The "Förderkreis Museum Berggruen Berlin e.V." was recently founded with the aim of further promoting and expanding the museum, which is part of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, through civic engagement. The founding members are Heinz Berggruen's heirs - his widow Bettina and his children

  9. Bernhard Weisser appointed new director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin (05.12.2014)

    Prof. Dr Bernhard Weisser will become Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage on 1 June 2015. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foundation Board today. Weisser has been acting Director of the Coin Cabinet since the end of Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge

  10. The new SPK magazine will be published on 7 July and asks about home: a magazine about everything that belongs to it (01.07.2016)

    Why the Berlin collections can provide answers to today's questions - Plus: Udo Kittelmann searches for home in his collections, Eugen Blume deciphers Beuys and Philipp Demandt visits the Zoo of Art once again What is home? A topic that is as hotly debated as Brexit or the outcome of the European Fo