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Much more than mindless gaming: as collectables, subjects of academic research and a medium for imparting knowledge, computer games have long been a focus of cultural heritage and research institutions. There’s plenty going on within the SPK too: the latest highlight was a meet-up with female game d

FREE TO ENTER At the 2026 Island Festival, Sunday (7 June) will be dedicated to democracy. This is in keeping with this year’s theme for UNESCO World Heritage Day: ‘Together for Peace and Understanding’. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has therefore invited partner institutions from across

Almost 600 skulls from the former German colonies in West Africa were examined as part of a joint research project with partners from Togo and Cameroon. The recently published report documents the findings and lays the groundwork for the potential repatriation of the human remains. The Museum of Pre

Doing good with your money: The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation uses bequests and legacies to support its charitable causes, and in return offers cultural diversity and appreciation

Doing good with your money: The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation uses bequests and legacies to support its charitable causes, and in return offers cultural diversity and appreciation

On 18 March, the International Advisory Board of the SPK met to agree on fundamental principles of cooperation and key topics. SPK President Marion Ackermann welcomed the members in Berlin The International Advisory Board will advise and support the SPK’s management on key social and cultural policy

Minister of State for Culture Weimer, Saxony's Prime Minister Kretschmer and Senator for Culture Wedl-Wilson honour formative years - speeches by Markschies and Chipperfield The former President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, was bid farewell on Tuesday (27 May) wit

The German Digital Library has today launched the online portal "Collections from colonial contexts" under the domain ccc.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de. This means that collection items from colonial contexts from 25 pilot institutions are now available online within the German Digital Library. In

The Bastian family will hand over the gallery building designed by David Chipperfield at Kupfergraben 10 to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation next year. It will be used in future as a centre for cultural education and will bear the name "Haus Bastian der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußi

Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and Peter-Klaus Schuster, Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, welcomed Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the heads of German missions abroad to the Ethnological Museum in Berlin-Dahlem ye