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In the course of the German-Polish intergovernmental consultations, 73 documents from the time of the Teutonic Order from the holdings of the Prussian Secret State Archives were returned to Poland today, Monday, at the Federal Chancellery. These are archival documents that were removed from the Wars

Legal Office The central Legal Office is the contact for all legal issues in the Foundation. Carola Thielecke Head of the Central Legal Office +49 30 266 411411 Email Contact for General Enquiries If you have a general question or do not know your contact person at the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbe

Ceremony in Luanda celebrates opening of restoration department and handover of collection inventories from Berlin At a ceremony on May 17, 2022, the Angolan branch of the Goethe Institute presented the Angolan Ministry of Culture with a translation of the entire inventory, comprising several volume

Issues of Ownership Over the course of history, objects have found their way into the Foundation’s holdings whose origins have not been completely clarified. The Foundation aims to establish who owns these objects. The National Socialist policy of persecution and the Second World War are the primary

Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft The Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (DOG) has had, from the time it was founded in 1898, close relationships to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. In 2012 the DOG and the SPK decided to collaborate even more closely. The collaboration thus far between the Deutsche Orient-Gese

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

Documents Important documents related to the work of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, such as brochures, statements of principle, and conceptual documents, are available for download in the Media Library.

The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) possesses immense treasures of the intellectual and artistic production of humankind. Several of them have been declared UNESCO World Heritage. More on This Subject

SPK Magazine 2/2015: Go on, Cross the Border! The new issue of SPK Magazine reports on the reunification of the Berlin collections 25 years ago. It tells the stories of those who were there – people from the East and the West, from restorer to museum director. Issue no. 8 (2016), cover feature: 25 y

Rosabetty Muñoz – one of Chile's outstanding poetic voices – will be reading from her work on February 2, 2026 at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI). The reading and a discussion with Claudia Hammerschmidt (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) will focus on the roots of her literature in southe