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  1. museum4punkt0: Joint project for digital cultural mediation nears successful conclusion (03.05.2023)

    The Germany-wide joint project for digital cultural mediation, museum4punkt0, is presenting the results of its work at a two-day closing event that opened today at the Kulturforum in Berlin. / museum4punkt0 | workbook published as a "toolbox" for practitioners The aim of museum4punkt0 was to make mu

  2. Colombian Deputy Minister for Multilateral Affairs at the IAI (10.04.2025)

    On April 3, 2025, a working meeting between Colombian Vice Minister Mauricio Jaramillo and Barbara Göbel, director of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI), took place at the IAI on German-Colombian cooperation in science, culture and collections. Mauricio Jaramillo Jassir, the Colombian Vice Mini

  3. Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz mourns the death of Egidio Marzona (16.03.2026)

    The Italian art collector and patron Egidio Marzona (born 1944 in Bielefeld) passed away on 15 March 2026 surrounded by his family and friends in Berlin. This was announced by his family today. For more than 50 years, Marzona amassed one of the most extensive collections of 20th century art. Parts o

  4. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: Words of mourning for Heinz Berggruen (02.03.2007)

    My Berlin began with Heinz Berggruen - professionally and emotionally. When I became President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in February 1999, one of my first encounters was with Heinz and Bettina Berggruen in the Stüler Building, in the Berggruen Collection. It was friendship at firs

  5. New President of the Prussian Foundation elected - Search committee appointed to find successor to the Director General (08.06.2007)

    The Board of Trustees today unanimously elected Prof. Dr Dr h.c. mult. Hermann Parzinger as the future President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK). On 1 March 2008, Parzinger will succeed Prof. Dr. h.c. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, who has held the office since February 1999. The Chairman

  6. ILLICID project investigates illegal trade in cultural property in Germany (10.04.2015)

    The kick-off meeting for the ILLICID research project took place today at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin with international participation. Over the next three years, ILLICID will use dark field research to gather information on the illegal trade in cultural artefacts in Germany.

  7. Visitor numbers to German museums and exhibition centres rose again in 2014 (16.12.2015)

    German museums and exhibition centres recorded a total of almost 118 million visits in 2014, almost 3 million more than in the previous year. These figures were published by the Institute for Museum Research at the National Museums in Berlin and the German Museums Association. They have been conduct

  8. Victoria of Calvatone from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, believed lost, rediscovered in St Petersburg (28.12.2016)

    The sculpture "Victoria of Calvatone" from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, which had been missing since the end of the war and was on display in the Altes Museum on Berlin's Museum Island until 1939, has resurfaced in Russia in the course of scientific research. This emerges from a r

  9. SPK restitutes works to Oppenheim heirs (22.01.2018)

    Eleven works that belonged to Margarete Oppenheim's collection until 1936 were identified in the Kunstgewerbemuseum and the Skulpturensammlung of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. A fair and equitable solution based on the Washington Principles was found for the works, which came to the museums via d

  10. Privacy policy for the processing of personal data in video-monitored areas

    Privacy policy for the processing of personal data in video-monitored areas The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) uses video surveillance at its museums and other properties. In the following, we would like to inform you about the processing of personal data in this context. A. Responsible