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  1. Gerhard Richter: over a hundred works coming to Berlin (15.03.2021)

    Gerhard Richter, one of the most influential artists of our time, is providing the Nationalgalerie (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) with a diverse group of more than a hundred works for the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts at the Kulturforum. The main work involved in this long-term partnership is the four-

  2. Foundation Board Decides on Concrete Steps for SPK Reform (29.06.2021)

    Today, the SPK Foundation Board adopted a framework for the structural reform of the Foundation based on the recommendations of the SPK Reform Commission. The museums, libraries, archives and research institutions of the SPK will be granted significantly more autonomy. At the same time, they will pu

  3. Klaus Biesenbach is appointed as Director of Neue Nationalgalerie and the Museum of the 20th Century (10.09.2021)

    The Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and long-time chief curator at MoMA will take over the post in 2022 Today, the Foundation Board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture and the Media, decided that K

  4. Cooperation with Angola: More Transparency for Collections from Colonial Contexts (17.05.2022)

    Ceremony in Luanda celebrates opening of restoration department and handover of collection inventories from Berlin At a ceremony on May 17, 2022, the Angolan branch of the Goethe Institute presented the Angolan Ministry of Culture with a translation of the entire inventory, comprising several volume

  5. "Don't call me...": Joint Initiative Against Racism (10.05.2021)

    To mark Germany's Diversity Day on May 18, 2021, rbb, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are taking a visible stand against racism by projecting a social video series on the facade of the James Simon Gallery. Every day, people in Berlin and Brandenburg experie

  6. 4A_Lab

    4A_Lab 4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics (4A_Lab) is a research and fellowship program designed in cooperation with Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institute and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz including their museums and research institutio

  7. 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

  8. “It’s about time!” – A Day at the Dahlem Research Campus: Kick-Off for a New Type of Research Center (24.10.2022)

    On October 7, the time had come at last: the new research campus in Dahlem opened its doors to the public for the first time and offered a preview of the future shape of the well-known museum ensemble. For two years now, a group of seven SPK institutions has been examining the question of how resear

  9. SPK begins research into the origins of human remains in a historical collection from West Africa (14.09.2021)

    The provenance of human skulls from what was German West Africa is being investigated in a three-year joint research project at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte. It is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The collections of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschi

  10. 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