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Today, the foundation stone for the James-Simon-Galerie, the new entrance building on Museum Island, will be laid in the presence of Michael Odenwald, State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development, representing the Federal Government. Also present are Hermann P

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation signs contract with Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art / Parzinger thanks Minister of State for Culture, Federal Foreign Office, Ministry of Finance and Bundestag / Steinmeier: Dialogue with Iranian society / Grütters: Spectacular insights / Kruse: Enriching live

On 23 September, the Belgian House of Representatives returned a painting by Friedrich Nerly to the SPK. It belonged to the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and was previously considered a loss as a result of the Second World War The painting "SS. Giovanni e

Art and Culture Minister Timon Gremmels today received a work by Albrecht Dürer from Prof. Dr Marion Ackermann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, together with Dr Justus Lange, Permanent Representative of the Museum Directorate Hessen Kassel Heritage (acting). The proof for "He

Digitizing and Documenting Digitization is a key aspect of conservation work in all the Foundation's institutions. It not only allows a digital representation to be studied in place of the original item, but also makes the collections globally accessible. The "CultLab3D" modular scanning pipeline fo

1st prize in the planning competition goes to the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) The competition organised by the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) as the project sponsor and client for the basic renov

On February 11, 2022, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) will hand over 32 ancestral remains to a representative of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). The ancestral remains have been in the keeping of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since 2011. A

Holdings Evacuated to Poland Some of the holdings of the Prussian collections were evacuated during the Second World War to German areas that now belong to Poland. The Foundation still claims ownership of these cultural assets. From the beginning of the Second World War, the holdings of the Staatsbi

Following an initial restitution in 2012, works from the collection of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (1879 - 1943) were recently identified again at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Prof Glaser, museum director and art collector, lost his position in 1933 due to his Jewish descent and emigrated. The

SPK Magazine 1/2021: Temple and Barn The Kulturforum: a place where architecture, art, music, science, and literature come together. The new issue takes you on a tour of this unique cultural landscape, past the newly renovated Neue Nationalgalerie and the busy building site where the Museum des 20.