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Our doors may have been closed for many weeks, but behind them our people have been busy. They have used that time to prepare a whole year full of special events, historical highlights, and sensational exhibitions. Soon, it will once again be possible to enjoy a real-life visit to the facilities and

SPK Annual Reports After sixty years, the SPK Annual Report replaces the time-honored SPK Yearbook that has faithfully recorded the Foundation’s events for posterity since 1958. Slim, modern, and discursive – a new print product was born in 2018. What happened at the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesi

The Goal and Significance of Germany’s Most Important Cultural Project at the Beginning of the 21st Century. By Hermann Parzinger The President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) presents the opportunities of the Humboldt Forum project for Berlin and it

Newsroom What is happening in the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation at the moment? Which issues are the SPK and its institutions addressing? All of the relevant content and links relating to news from Germany's largest cultural institution are brought together in the SPK newsroom: Here you can f

New Presentation in the Humboldt Forum The exhibitions by the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Asian Art Museum) in the Humboldt Forum will incorporate multiple perspectives. The topic of colonial injustice will also be addressed. Visualization of the

The "Temple and Barn" issue explores the ensemble of buildings for art, literature, music, and science and asks what they have to offer. Berlin's cultural forum in the Tiergarten district, near Potsdamer Platz, is going to become livelier and acquire new qualities. That's the unanimous wish of the i

SPK President Hermann Parzinger took the visit as an opportunity to thank the federal states for their commitment to the work of the Foundation. At the invitation of Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller and President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundatio

Alexander von Humboldt’s diaries are, besides his letters, the most important surviving original documents of his travels. At the end of 2013, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) acquired Humboldt’s American travel diaries. This purchase was made possible b

President and Vice President The President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz is prehistorian Prof. Dr. Hermann Parzinger. It has had three other presidents before him. Gero Dimter took up the office of vice president in 2019. The President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Prof. Dr.

SPK Foundation Board appoints Dagmar Hirschfelder as the successor of Michael Eissenhauer as director of the Gemäldegalerie SPK Foundation Board decided on June 29, 2021: Dr. Dagmar Hirschfelder, who currently heads the paintings and graphics department of the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg, wi