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  1. Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung

    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

  2. Kulturforum: start of construction work on the National Gallery's Museum of the 20th Century (18.11.2020)

    Work on the Museum of the 20th Century at the Kulturforum is now starting on site. The building for the National Museums in Berlin is designed by the celebrated Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron. Text A number of measures are needed to prepare the area at the Kulturforum for construction work. The

  3. Next phase of exemplary partnership between SPK and Museums Association of Namibia starts (24.05.2022)

    Objects travel from Berlin to Namibia – long-term, collaborative research process with cultural heritage communities, artists and scientists 23 objects from the collection of the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will travel to Namibia on May 27 as part of the collaborative re

  4. SPK mourns Adriaan von Müller (01.12.2021)

    The long-time director of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin passed away on November 28 at the age of 93. In the Cold War era, Adriaan von Müller, who was appointed director of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory and Early History) in 1

  5. Making Spaces

    Making Spaces Making Spaces: A Programming Series in Solidarity with Ukraine is a series of cross-institutional events of the SPK (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin). Throughout the series’ formats Talking Spaces, Performing Spaces

  6. Drawing by Hackert restituted from the Kupferstichkabinett (30.04.2019)

    The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin bought the ink wash drawing "Auf Hiddensee" in 1939. Its previous owner had to sell it when he was being persecuted by the Nazi regime. Yesterday, a descendant of Friedrich Emil Guttsmann (1888-1959) came to Berlin to receive the drawing in the Kupferstichkabinett (Mu

  7. A wooden ceiling that seems to float (23.02.2021)

    A section of wooden ceiling has now been mounted in the Domed Hall, where objects from the Silk Road region will be shown, part of the outstanding collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Chief restorer Toralf Gabsch explains the background. What is special a

  8. German-American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP) for Museum Professionals, 2017–2019

    German-American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP) for Museum Professionals, 2017–2019 The German/American exchange program PREP was set up jointly by the SPK and the Smithsonian Institution. Its purpose was to create a strategic network of provenance researchers in museums in both countrie

  9. Project launched to investigate the origin of human skulls (02.08.2017)

    For the next two years, the SPK is studying the exact origin of about a thousand skulls from the former colony of German East Africa. The Gerda Henkel Foundation is funding the project. Since 2011, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory and Early History) of the Staatliche Muse

  10. Structure

    Structure The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) has since 1957 formed the room for five institutions that preserve the former Prussian collections. Through the Foundation Board, the federal government and all the state governments are involved in the work and