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Profile of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) is one of the most important cultural institutions in the world. It brings together museums, libraries, archives and research institutes whose collections document the cult

Goethe-Institut In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, the Foundation implements cultural and educational projects. The goal of this collaboration is to help make the Foundation’s collections more visible internationally. Staged reading of Lessing’s The Jews as first part of the Goethe-Institut’s

On February 12, 2018, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, talked to the Tagesspiegel about the Humboldt Forum, ways of dealing with objects from the colonial era, and provenance research. The Humboldt Forum is due to open at the end of 2019. It will enable the col

On 7 November 2014, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will open the fifth season of their joint chamber concert series "Notturno" at the Neue Nationalgalerie. Mies van der Rohe's masterpiece, which has been home to modern art in the capital since

Edmund de Unger, whose private collection in the field of Islamic art, known internationally as the Keir Collection, achieved worldwide significance, died on 25 January 2011 in Ham near London at the age of 92. Edmund de Unger was laid to rest today in Richmond / London with great sympathy from inte

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

The keys to the future Center for Cultural Education of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin were handed over in a ceremony today The building designed by David Chipperfield Architects and located on Kupfergraben, an historical street in Berlin’s Museumsinsel district, was ceremoniously given to the Stif

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today handed over a brick fragment from the 3rd millennium BC to Iraq. A private individual sent the valuable piece by post to the Vorderasiatisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in March 2015 and gave it to the museum as a gift for further safek

Long-term conservation of Heinrich Schliemann's files The Koordinierungsstelle für die Erhaltung des schriftlichen Kulturguts (Coordination Office for the Preservation of the Written Cultural Heritage) (KEK) has made funds available for conservation work to secure the long-term survival of files lef

Ernst-Waldschmidt-Preis In recognition of outstanding research in the field of Indology, the Stiftung Ernst Waldschmidt of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz bestows the Ernst-Waldschmidt-Preis. It includes prize money up to 5,000 euros. The prize has been offered since 1988 and can be awarded e