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  1. bpk-Bildagentur to Be Central Online Shop for Museums, Archives, and Libraries (14.03.2017)

    Funding approved by Monika Grütters will make the digitized images in the possession of all German cultural institutions more accessible In the future, it will be even easier for professional users to purchase images of cultural treasures. There will be a central distribution platform for high-quali

  2. Dossier: Nachhaltigkeit

    Dossier: Nachhaltigkeit Nicht zuletzt die verheerenden Hochwasserkatastrophen, Waldbrände von enormer Fläche oder steigende Wasserknappheit machten überdeutlich, dass der menschengemachte Klimawandel sich Bahn bricht. Zahlreiche internationale und nationale Kultureinrichtungen haben sich in den letz

  3. 514 Berlin Benin bronzes return to Nigerian ownership (25.08.2022)

    The "Benin bronzes" officially belong to Nigeria again. About a third of the transferred objects will remain on loan in Berlin and will be exhibited in the Humboldt Forum. On 25 august 2022, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director Ge

  4. “We shall not forget Erich Marx” (10.09.2020)

    The SPK, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Nationalgalerie mourn the loss of the great collector, who died yesterday at the age of 99 The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) mourn the loss o

  5. Declaration on Accessibility

    Declaration on Accessibility This declaration on accessibility applies to the website of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) published at www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de. As a public body within the meaning of Directive (EU) 2016/2102, we strive to make ou

  6. Lost sculpture from the Antikensammlung rediscovered in Russia (28.12.2016)

    The Calvatone Victory was displayed until 1939 in the Altes Museum on Berlin’s Museumsinsel and has been missing since the end of the war. Recently, it has been found in St. Petersburg, thanks to the work of researchers. The discovery was announced in an article in the scholarly journal of the St Pe

  7. DFG funding survey: SPK raises 21.5 million euros (06.10.2021)

    The figures published in the DFG's latest survey of funding highlight the importance of the SPK for Germany as a center of research. The Förderatlas 2021, published by the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) (DFG), collates the key figures for the public funding of research

  8. Issues of Ownership

    Issues of Ownership Over the course of history, objects have found their way into the Foundation’s holdings whose origins have not been completely clarified. The Foundation aims to establish who owns these objects. The National Socialist policy of persecution and the Second World War are the primary

  9. Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft

    Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (DOG) has had, from the time it was founded in 1898, close relationships to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In 2012 the DOG and the SPK decided to collaborate even more closely. The collaboration thus far between the Deutsche Orient-Gese

  10. SPK Magazine 2/2015: Go on, Cross the Border!

    SPK Magazine 2/2015: Go on, Cross the Border! The new issue of SPK Magazine reports on the reunification of the Berlin collections 25 years ago. It tells the stories of those who were there – people from the East and the West, from restorer to museum director. Issue no. 8 (2016), cover feature: 25 y