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  1. Pop-up vaccination centre in the Potsdamer Platz State Library (08.02.2022)

    Vaccination will take place from 16 to 19 February 2022 at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin at Potsdamer Platz, Potsdamer Straße 33. Registration via Doctolib: https://www.doctolib.de/institut/berlin/aino Vaccination protects - even culture. That's why the SPK, together with Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH,

  2. "Where does the future begin?" Annual Report 2022 shows external perspectives on the SPK (09.08.2023)

    The new annual report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has been published. It looks back on the important events of 2022 - such as the securing of the Rieckhallen, the discovery of a Rembrandt, restitutions such as the Benin bronzes, the opening of the museums in the Humboldt Forum and t

  3. In Memory of Erich Marx (09.09.2021)

    A moving memorial ceremony was held in the Hamburger Bahnhof by the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the family in memory of the great art collector Erich Marx, who died last year. Erich Marx died one year ago, at the age of 99. Today, around two hundred invited guests paid tribute to the grea

  4. Royal Visit from Cameroon in Humboldt Forum (23.11.2022)

    King of the Cameroonian Nso' people saw the Ngonnso' statue at the Humboldt Forum for the first time on November 12, 2022. It was a long-awaited, a well-nigh historic trip for Fon Sehm Mbinglo I. On Saturday, November 12, for the first time since he ascended the throne more than 30 years ago, the ki

  5. Project launched to investigate the origin of human skulls (02.08.2017)

    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

  6. The Humboldt Forum in Fast Motion (19.08.2015)

    Not far from the Museumsinsel (Museum Island), a home for the cultures of the world is being created in the new Berliner Schloss (Berlin Palace). In June 2015, two years after the cornerstone was laid, the topping out ceremony was held. Beginning in 2019, the planned Humboldt Forum in the reconstruc

  7. Kulturforum

    Kulturforum Some of the Foundation's institutions have buildings at the Kulturforum. During the period when Germany was divided, the Foundation developed the Kulturforum as its main location. This is where most of its new buildings were erected. The Kulturforum is now being enhanced further by the c

  8. Getting to the Bottom of Art: Works by Caspar David Friedrich, Layer by Layer (22.01.2016)

    The Alte Nationalgalerie has undertaken a thorough restoration of the paintings Monk by the Sea and The Abbey in the Oakwood. Ina Reiche, head of the Rathgen-Forschungslabor, speaks to us about the analysis process, some hidden layers of varnish, and the broad range of techniques she uses. Over the

  9. Partnership of SPK with CSMVS in Mumbai (14.01.2026)

    Antikensammlung (Collection of Classical Antiquities) and Vorderasiatisches Museum (Museum of Ancient Near East) contribute to the exhibition "Networks of the Past. A Study Gallery of India & the Ancient World" in Mumbai. Mumbai recently saw the opening of the first major archaeological exhibition t

  10. 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