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Cultural Assets Illegally Removed in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) Cultural assets were also seized illegally from their owners in the GDR. Such cases are handled by government agencies set up specifically for that purpose. The Foundation assists these agencies by request. In 2007 returned pa

Tasks of National Interest The Foundation often plays a central role in cultural tasks of national interest. They include, for example, preserving written heritage and the digitization of cultural heritage. The federal government can entrust the implementation of cultural tasks that are important to

Voluntary Social Year You can do your Freiwilliges Soziales Jahr (Voluntary Social Year) at the Foundation. There are positions available at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Two women doing their Voluntary Social Year in Culture at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin c

Donating Funds and Works All of the Foundation's facilities and areas of activity would be delighted to receive your donation: You can donate to the Foundation as an overall institution, to your favourite institution or collection or to selected topics and projects that are important to you! With yo

Europa Nostra, the German Cultural Heritage Committee and the SPK call for better use of cultural heritage potential – summit in Berlin with more than 70 events and 1500 guests The European Cultural Heritage Summit has agreed on a Berlin Call to Action: Europa Nostra, German Cultural Heritage Commit

The Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, comprising two sites at the Humboldt Forum and in Dahlem, will get a new director in January. The new director of the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) will be Tina

Institut für Museumsforschung (Institute for Museum Research) The institute is a research and documentation institute active throughout Germany on various museum issues. It represents the concerns of the Foundation and the German federal state governments within a European framework. The activities

Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch have been collecting great art for fifty years. Now, they are donating to the City of Berlin approximately 150 works by artists of the modern period, such as Max Ernst, René Magritte, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. The pictures will be permanently displayed at the new mus

The first large object, the Luf boat, has been moved from the Ethnologisches Museum to the Humboldt Forum. The boat drew crowds to Dahlem and is one of the highlights of the permanent exhibit, which will be open for viewing again in late 2019, in the reconstructed Berliner Schloss (Berlin Palace). B

In order to provide visitors to the Museumsinsel with an attractive alternative venue while the Pergamonmuseum is refurbished, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz plans to erect a temporary exhibition building. This building will be located where the train tracks cross Am Kupfergraben, directly ac