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To mark Germany's Diversity Day on May 18, 2021, rbb, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin are taking a visible stand against racism by projecting a social video series on the facade of the James Simon Gallery. Every day, people in Berlin and Brandenburg experie

Alexander von Humboldt’s diaries are, besides his letters, the most important surviving original documents of his travels. At the end of 2013, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) acquired Humboldt’s American travel diaries. This purchase was made possible b

BY INVITATION ONLY, PUBLIC LIVESTREAM As places for the symposium are strictly limited, please note that invitations can only be issued for named individuals who have registered in advance. A livestream of the symposium can be viewed without prior registration. Click here for online streaming. Date

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

Strengthening Berlin as an international science metropolis is the goal of a joint initiative of the capital's non-university research institutions. They have joined forces to form BR 50 (Berlin Research 50) in order to develop joint strategies for research and dialogue with politics and society. Th

This year, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is preparing for the reopening of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden and the handover of the keys to the Neue Nationalgalerie. As SPK President Hermann Parzinger said at the traditional annual reception in the James-Simon-Galerie, the Staatsbib

On 10 November 2020, the exhibition "Iron Age - Europe without Borders" opens at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Around 1600 objects from the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage and the three Russian partner museums will provi

SPK returns books confiscated during the Second World War to the French daily newspaper Le Figaro - Ceremonial handover at the embassy Today at the French Embassy in Berlin, the Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Achim Bonte, returned 33 books to representatives of the French newspa

Provenance of historical skull collection researched - funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media enables mediation in West Africa Over a period of three years, researchers from the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin have been workin

The SPK president comments on the recommendations of the Scientific Board presented today. The goal is to "strengthen the potential for development and not to damage ... the special aura, but to enhance [it]." On July 13, 2020, the German Council of Science and Humanities presented the results of it