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  1. Handing over the keys to the State Library's General Reading Room (10.12.2012)

    Unter den Linden created the best structural conditions for users, valuable collections and librarians. Today, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, and the Director General of the Berlin State Library, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, receive the keys to the new Gen

  2. Praktika und Vorpraktika

    Praktika und Vorpraktika Die Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz bietet Studierenden und Schülerinnen und Schülern die Möglichkeit, Pflichtpraktika zu absolvieren und damit wertvolle Einblicke in die Arbeit einer kulturellen Institution zu gewinnen. Auch Vorpraktika im Rahmen eines Restaurierungsstudi

  3. Utopia Cultural Forum: Unplace - place of longing - place of the future (26.08.2021)

    With an exhibition and event project, the St. Matthäus Foundation, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation are jointly exploring the history of ideas of the Kulturforum for the first time - on 26 August there will be a festive opening in the open air - in

  4. Utopia Cultural Forum (18.08.2021)

    With an exhibition and event project, the St. Matthäus Foundation, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation are jointly exploring the history of ideas of the Kulturforum for the first time - on 26 August there will be a festive opening in the open air - in

  5. Museums close, libraries and archives open under certain conditions (30.10.2020)

    The museums of the SPK cease to open for the public from Monday, November 2, 2020 until the end of the month – its archives and libraries remain open, subject to conditions From Monday, November 2, 2020, until the end of the month, the SPK is no longer admitting members of the public to any of the m

  6. Alexander von Humboldt’s American Travel Diaries (01.12.2014)

    Alexander von Humboldt’s diaries are, besides his letters, the most important surviving original documents of his travels. At the end of 2013, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) acquired Humboldt’s American travel diaries. This purchase was made possible b

  7. Media worlds - knowledge, information and communication in the digital revolution (27.08.2014)

    As part of the event "Mediale Welten - Wissen, Information und Kommunikation im digitalen Umbruch", experts will discuss the consequences and development potential of digital communication technologies and the associated future changes to the world of work in the fields of science and research on 1

  8. The KEK celebrates its anniversary! 10 years of coordinated original preservation in Germany (10.03.2021)

    In 2011, the Coordination Centre for the Preservation of the Written Cultural Heritage (KEK) was founded as a federal States project and located at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. It is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) and the t

  9. The Whole of Bach in One Mass (20.10.2017)

    Conductor Ton Koopman on the Mass in B Minor, a treasure of the Staatsbibliothek that now also belongs to the Memory of the World – performed in three concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Stored at a constant temperature of eighteen degrees Celsius with fifty percent humidity in the vault

  10. Conservation and Restoration

    Conservation and Restoration Many highly specialized staff are employed throughout the Foundation to preserve vulnerable cultural heritage artifacts. They perform restoration or conservation work and prevent damage occurring. Preserving unique cultural objects: restore and digitize genealogical tabl