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  1. Handing over the keys to the State Library's General Reading Room (10.12.2012)

    Unter den Linden created the best structural conditions for users, valuable collections and librarians. Today, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, and the Director General of the Berlin State Library, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, receive the keys to the new Gen

  2. New rooms - new lines of sight - new views (11.01.2018)

    The construction site of the James-Simon-Galerie on Museum Island opens up new perspectives Berlin. Since the topping-out ceremony in April 2016, the James-Simon-Galerie has been visibly taking shape as the central entrance building to Berlin's Museum Island, both from the outside and the inside. Hi

  3. Let the competitions begin! The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition for organ and violoncello starts on 16 January 2019 (15.01.2019)

    The public competitions of the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University Competition, which will be held this year in the organ and cello categories, will begin on 16 January 2019. As in the previous year, the two final concerts on 19 and 20 January 2019 will take place together with the Konzerthausorc

  4. Happy ending after 74 years: Menzel's "Dame im Coupé" and "Schutzmann im Winter" back in the Kupferstichkabinett (23.03.2019)

    The two works "Dame im Coupé" and "Schutzmann im Winter" had been considered lost since their removal from storage during the Second World War. Now the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has succeeded in the sensational recovery of the two prints by Adolph Menzel (1815-1905). Aro

  5. Opening of the exhibition "The Victoria of Calvatone: The Fate of a Masterpiece" at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (06.12.2019)

    On 7 December 2019, the exhibition "The Victoria of Calvatone: The Fate of a Masterpiece", organised by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the National Museums in Berlin, will open in the Hermitage's "Roman Court" room. The exhibition marks the completion of the restoration of the stat

  6. Restitution and purchase of the sculpture "Resting Woman" by Fritz Huf (28.03.2022)

    SPK restitutes sculpture by Fritz Huf to the heiress of Hans (Jean) Fürstenberg - SPSG purchases work for the park of Schönhausen Palace On 5 April 2022, the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) will hand over the bronze sculpture "Resting Woman", creat

  7. Data privacy

    Data privacy It is important to the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz to handle your personal data responsibly and to make its use transparent. For this reason, the following sections explain how we use your data: who is responsible for the website under data protection law the form in which person

  8. Handover of cultural artefacts at the German-Polish Forum on 17 June 2026 (17.06.2026)

    Joint press release from the Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), the Federal Ministry of Transport and the City of Pforzheim on the handover of cultural property at the German-Polish Forum on 17 June

  9. Executive Board

    Executive Board The Executive Board manages the Foundation as a collegial body. It develops the Foundation's overall strategy and makes decisions on matters affecting all of its institutions. Die Vorstand der Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, v.l. Achim Bonte, Marion Ackermann, Barbara Göbel, Klaus

  10. American Independence Day – SPK programme highlight (29.06.2026)

    Press invitation: ‘We the People’ – a programme initiative to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence 4 July 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence. To mark this occasion, the institutions of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritag