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  1. ICOM and SPK present German Version of the Red List of Iraqi Cultural Objects at Risk (13.01.2016)

    ICOM has updated its Emergency Red List of Iraqi Cultural Objects at Risk. On January 14, 2016, the German version will be presented at the Archäologisches Zentrum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Illegal excavations and looting threaten cultural heritage across the globe. This has reached dramat

  2. Holdings Evacuated to Poland

    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

  3. Sharing historical sound recordings from Latin America globally (20.10.2025)

    To mark the 125th anniversary of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut and the Ethnologisches Museum presented wax cylinder recordings (1905-1934) from Latin America. These are now available worldwide in open access in the IAI's Digital Collections. To celebrate the 125th

  4. Architectural competition for the new depot building of the National Museums in Berlin decided (12.06.2008)

    The Speicherstadt for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin-Friedrichshagen The architects AV1 Architekten, Kaiserslautern, are the winners of the competition for the new depots and workshops of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin-Friedrichshagen. The j

  5. Launch of a German-Russian research project on the losses of Russian museums during the Second World War (08.03.2012)

    A large-scale German-Russian research project on the loss of valuable works of art and cultural artefacts from Russian museums during the Second World War has been launched under the title "Russian Museums in the Second World War". The project partners are delighted to have received funding from the

  6. Positioning on the future of Berlin's museum landscape (21.08.2013)

    The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Director General of the National Museums in Berlin see a new building at the Kulturforum as a significant and realisable step towards the further development of Berlin's museum landscape. This will create the urgently needed presenta

  7. Welfenschatz: American court decides on the admissibility of the lawsuit (01.04.2017)

    The action for the return of the Guelph Treasure was partially allowed by the U.S. District Court at first instance. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which had filed a motion to dismiss the action in its entirety as inadmissible, will now examine its further options. In February 2015, a la

  8. Almost 100,000 euros in funding for the preservation of written cultural heritage at the SPK (14.08.2017)

    "East Prussian folios" and "Schriftkunst" receive protection The Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage will receive funding of 50,000 euros to protect the "East Prussian Folios" from the "Special Programme 2017 for the Preservation of the Written Cultural Heritage" of Minister of State

  9. Humboldt Lab Tanzania - Shared object histories (03.07.2018)

    The "Humboldt Lab Tanzania" project and the closely related provenance research project "Tanzania-Germany: Shared Object Histories?" have been running at the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin since 2016. The museum worked together with actors from Tanzania on object histories of

  10. The KEK celebrates its anniversary! 10 years of coordinated original preservation in Germany (10.03.2021)

    In 2011, the Coordination Centre for the Preservation of the Written Cultural Heritage (KEK) was founded as a federal States project and located at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. It is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) and the t