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  1. Masterpieces of the world at a click - The bpk picture agency offers a highly professional service for media, business and science (18.02.2015)

    With today's launch of the new image portal of the picture agency bpk www.bpk-images.de, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is making a unique pool of high-quality images from the fields of art, culture and history available for commercial use. In the joint online shop of the world's most ren

  2. SPK researches the origin of human remains from East Africa - Gerda Henkel Foundation supports the project (02.08.2017)

    As part of a pilot project, the SPK will be researching the provenance of around a thousand human skulls from the former colony of German East Africa from the beginning of October. The project is based at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin and is funded by t

  3. Topping-out ceremony in Friedrichshagen (24.04.2023)

    Depot location of the National Museums in Berlin takes shape Berlin. In Berlin-Friedrichshagen, under the direction of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) and on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), a multifunctional depot building is being built for the

  4. Parzinger: Provenance research must not end at the doors of public institutions! (02.02.2018)

    As part of a debate on developments since the adoption of the Washington Principles (principles of the Washington Conference in relation to works of art confiscated by the National Socialists) 20 years ago, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, stated today:

  5. The estate of Leni Riefenstahl - an interim balance of research (30.01.2026)

    Exploitation of a collection under complex conditions - ethical-legal questions and artistic debate The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is cataloguing and researching the extensive estate of Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003). The Art Library with its Museum of Photography, the Ethnological Museum,

  6. Creating opportunities together

    13.05.2026 Creating opportunities together Why the games industry and cultural heritage organisations are working together Article Much more than mindless gaming: as collectables, subjects of academic study and a medium for imparting knowledge, computer games have long been a focus of cultural herit

  7. New building takes shape - topping-out ceremony for the storage depot of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin-Friedrichshagen (28.01.2010)

    Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is celebrating the topping-out ceremony for the first construction phase of the Foundation's new storage depot in Berlin-Friedrichshagen in the presence of Rainer Bomba, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Construction and Ingeborg Berggreen-Me

  8. Return of a painting by Guiseppe Crespi (17.07.2007)

    The Foundation recently returned the oil painting by the Bolognese painter Guiseppe Maria Crespi "The Train of Silen" from the former collection of Dr Fritz Haussmann to Fritz Haussmann's heiress. She had asserted her claim for restitution to the Foundation. The work was in the collection of the Gem

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation supports Hamburg Note (15.10.2015)

    Parzinger: Digitisation of cultural heritage requires a new legal framework Together with other German archives, libraries and museums, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is campaigning for new copyright regulations for the digitisation of cultural heritage. In the so-called "Hamburg Note", t

  10. The Stabi card catalogues will be retained for the time being (16.02.2026)

    The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin recently hosted an academic discussion entitled "Card catalogues. Untouchable cultural asset, active object of research or substitutable historical tool?". The colloquium demonstrated the academic interest in fundamental research into the history and significance of ca