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The Coordination Office for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage (KEK) The substance of written cultural heritage is often endangered. The Koordinierungsstelle promotes their preservation and networks archives, libraries and museums nationwide. A restoration project funded by the Koordinier

Revenue, donations and third-party funding 2025 The foundation generates its own income through a wide range of services for its visitors and users. It also secures external funding for research projects, new acquisitions, exhibitions and other projects. Income Revenue The Prussian Cultural Heritage

2025 Budget The budget of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is divided into an operating budget and a capital budget. The budget for 2025 provides for total expenditure of around 418.4 million euros. At the end of each year, the Foundation Board approves the budget of the Prussian Cultural H

Sponsorship and Financing The agreement on the joint financing of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz was renewed by the federal government and the states on March 12, 2025, and entered into force on January 1, 2026. The funding agreement governs the joint financial responsibility of the federal g

UNESCO World Heritage The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) possesses great treasures of the intellectual and artistic production of humankind. Several of them have been declared UNESCO World Heritage. The historical ensemble was declared a UNESCO World Herit

Prussian Cultural Heritage The origins of the vast majority of the museum, library, and archival holdings that have been brought together within the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) long predate its founding. Their diversity and their continuing importance w

History of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) was founded in the Federal Republic of German in 1957. The background was the final dissolution of the State of Prussia ten years earlier. The issue of the ownership of it

Publications The Foundation and its institutions publish around a hundred books and other print products annually. The spectrum of publications also includes CD series and online editions of specific holdings. Buchladen im Museum für Fotografie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin © SMB / Achim Kleuker

Tasks of National Interest The Foundation often plays a central role in cultural tasks of national interest. They include, for example, preserving written heritage and the digitization of cultural heritage. The federal government can entrust the implementation of cultural tasks that are important to

Federal-State Cooperation The federal government and all the states jointly fund the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Conversely, the Foundation sometimes undertakes tasks on behalf of the federal government. In addition, all of the Foundation’s institutions maintain substantive ties to the states