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  1. U.S. Courts Lack Jurisdiction for Guelph Treasure Lawsuit, Appeals Court Confirms (17.07.2023)

    The Guelph Treasure has been the subject of an action for restitution in the United States since 2015. In 2022, the SPK's motion to dismiss the lawsuit was granted. The appellate court has now confirmed this decision. The Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) of the Staatliche Museen zu Ber

  2. SPK Foundation Board on dealing with the Benin bronzes (24.03.2021)

    Strategy for joint action of ethnological museums to be developed - return of objects is an option At its meeting on March 24, 2021, the Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) considered, among other matters, the treatment of objects with colonial con

  3. Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut on the report of the Wissenschaftsrat (23.09.2020)

    Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI, Ibero-American Institute) on the report of the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) and the further reform process of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) The Scie

  4. Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut on the report of the Wissenschaftsrat (23.09.2020)

    Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI, Ibero-American Institute) on the report of the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) and the further reform process of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) The Scie

  5. Generous Gift from the Marx Family (08.09.2022)

    Professor Axel Marx and family donate important Beuys works from the Erich Marx Collection to the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz The family of art collector Erich Marx, who died in 2020, has donated all of the works by artist Joseph Beuys in the Marx collection to the Stiftung Preussischer Kultu

  6. Provenance Research Project regarding Mosse Collection (07.03.2017)

    The „Mosse Art Research Initiative“ (MARI) was presented to the public today. SPK is partner to the project which is an unprecedented initiative in provenance research. The collections of the publisher Rudolf Mosse (1843–1920) contained thousands of pictures, sculptures, art objects, books, and anti

  7. An Extremely Generous Gift: The Keys to Haus Bastian (12.03.2019)

    The keys to the future Center for Cultural Education of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin were handed over in a ceremony today The building designed by David Chipperfield Architects and located on Kupfergraben, an historical street in Berlin’s Museumsinsel district, was ceremoniously given to the Stif

  8. Allusions to Schinkel’s Works (24.10.2022)

    The new Bauakademie will be an example of sustainability in architecture The reconstructed version of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s former Bauakademie (Building Academy) in the historical center of Berlin will be “an outstanding example of architectural innovation and environmental, economic and social

  9. The KEK celebrates its tenth anniversary (10.03.2021)

    In 2021, the Koordinierungsstelle für die Erhaltung des schriftlichen Kulturguts (KEK) celebrates its tenth anniversary. The joint federal and state project is based at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz. The Koordinierungsstelle für die Erhaltung des schriftlichen Kulturguts

  10. Locations

    Locations The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) has its seat in Berlin. The many buildings of its institutions are found in various locations in the city. Through various construction projects the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz preserves and modernizes it