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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

Cluster of Excellence: “Image Knowledge Gestaltung: An interdisciplinary Laboratory” This cluster studies complex problems that cannot be solved within the boundaries of a single scholarly discipline. Fundamental design processes in the sciences are at the center of its interests. This cluster of ex

Transfer of Expert Knowledge The Foundation and its institutions perform a supporting function for the scientific and cultural worlds. They share the results of their research activity and their expertise in numerous tasks with the world of experts. Meeting of a German-Georgian working group in the

SPK will return human bones in a bark coffin and two mummified children’s bodies currently kept in the Ethnologisches Museum to Australia. Since 2011, Australia has followed a policy that supports Indigenous Australians in recovering and returning their ancestral remains from abroad. In February 202

Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz 2014 Content unavailable We apologize that this content is available in German only. 2014 wurde die Neue Nationalgalerie von Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in die mehrjährige Sanierung verabschiedet. Das Jahrbuch widmet sich der Architekturikone und ihrem historischen Um

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

Starting in October, Johann Herzberg will be responsible for the strategic development of IT for all digital services and content offered by the SPK. Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK: “In Johann Herzberg, the SPK has gained a strategically focused IT manager who is also familiar with the admi

Traineeship / Legal Traineeship If you have a university degree, you can complete a traineeship at the Foundation to prepare for higher civil service in a library or archive. Legal trainees can fulfil their administrative or elective stage here. Trainees at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin are introdu

Volontariat “Volontariat” positions are offered at the Staatliche Museen, the Institut für Musikforschung, and in the Press and Public Relations Office of the President. All of them require a university degree and in some cases a PhD. In the restoration workshop of the Collection of Classical Antiqu

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