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  1. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation receives the estate of Leni Riefenstahl (12.02.2018)

    Heiress donates extensive photographic and film holdings, manuscripts, letters, files and documents - Art Library and State Library will process the estate - Cooperation with the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek planned - Parzinger: "This estate demands special responsibility from the SPK The Prussian C

  2. Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz statement on “Open letter: We demand free access to the museum inventories of African objects in Germany!” (17.10.2019)

    Anyone who is objectively involved with the work of museums in Germany knows that they go to great effort to disclose their holdings and create transparency. For the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK), the debate on the object biographies in African colle

  3. The Secret State Archives PK opens: New website more user-friendly and up-to-date, reading room accessible again (12.05.2020)

    New layout, new structure, new content - the website of the Secret State Archives PK has been completely relaunched / Research room reopened to users on 14 May 2020 Following the recent amendment to the Berlin SARS-CoV-2 Containment Measures Ordinance, archives are now also allowed to reopen. The Se

  4. "Art, looting, restitution - forgotten life stories": SPK and SKD cooperate for educational project on Nazi art looting (10.06.2025)

    "Art, looting and restitution" continues with a new focus - Forgotten Jewish life stories as a starting point for democracy education in museums - Funding from the Federal Ministry of Youth in the "Live Democracy!" programme and from the Friede Springer Foundation - Focus on the fight against anti-S

  5. International Museum Conference: Collecting Institutions between Crisis and Creativity (28.06.2022)

    Representatives of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Museu Nacional met in Rio de Janeiro to discuss future opportunities and challenges for museums, libraries and archives. On September 2, 2018, the 200-year-old National Museum o

  6. International Museum Conference: Collecting Institutions between Crisis and Creativity (28.06.2022)

    Representatives of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Museu Nacional met in Rio de Janeiro to discuss future opportunities and challenges for museums, libraries and archives. On September 2, 2018, the 200-year-old National Museum o

  7. Iron Age - Europe without borders (10.11.2020)

    On 10 November 2020, the exhibition "Iron Age - Europe without Borders" opens at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Around 1600 objects from the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage and the three Russian partner museums will provi

  8. Annual reception and focal points of the SPK in 2026 (27.02.2026)

    Annual reception at the James-Simon-Galerie - Ackermann: We offer a strong programme and face challenges - good visitor balance 2025 - focus on educational and mediation work Almost 300 guests from politics, culture, science, business, tourism and society attended the annual reception of the Prussia

  9. The "Nefertiti Hack" – Is It a Hoax? (09.03.2016)

    In the art intervention The Other Nefertiti, two artists have published a 3D model of the bust of Nefertiti online – because, they say, the bust and its data are not accessible. How true is that claim? Jan Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al-Badri say on their website that they made the scan in the Neues Mus

  10. Amazonia at the IAI: Yudja representatives visit collections on the Rio Xingu (11.09.2025)

    Karin Juruna and Txapina Juruna traveled from the Rio Xingu in Brazil to Berlin. At the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, they viewed historical maps, photos, research diaries, audio recordings and publications about their region of origin. Their visit emphasized the importance of exchange regarding th