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SPK president reacts to media reports that Nigeria’s departing President Buhari has transferred ownership of all objects to Oba Ewuare II, the successor to the kings of Benin. Last December, Foreign Minister Baerbock and the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, returned the

Design competition is completed – the winning design “is the expression of a unique approach - restrained, yet with a strong presence” says Arno Lederer, chairman of the jury. On October 27, 2016, the winners of the design competition were announced: Herzog & de Meuron architects from Basel, in part

Division of the SPK into three independent parts fails to gain majority support. The Advisory Board gives its opinion on the Science Council’s evaluation paper. On August 17, the Advisory Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) considered the recommend

With an exhibition and event project, the St. Matthäus Foundation, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation are jointly exploring the history of ideas of the Kulturforum for the first time - on 26 August there will be a festive opening in the open air - in

With an exhibition and event project, the St. Matthäus Foundation, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation are jointly exploring the history of ideas of the Kulturforum for the first time - on 26 August there will be a festive opening in the open air - in

The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) mourn the loss of the great fashion designer Uli Richter, who died yesterday at the age of 94. SPK President Hermann Parzinger praised his qualities: "Uli R

The Kulturforum is due to get a new building for a museum of the 20th century. Together with the refurbished Neue Nationalgalerie, it will form a closely integrated unit. The two buildings will enable the Nationalgalerie to present its important collection of twentieth-century art in a coherent way

A rediscovered Madonna, the history of the sculpture collection, the networks of Surrealism, talking mats, and the responsible handling of human remains – all of this is linked to the work of provenance researchers. On 8 April, they will be talking about it. This year marks the eighth edition of Int

SPK Foundation Board appoints Dagmar Hirschfelder as the successor of Michael Eissenhauer as director of the Gemäldegalerie SPK Foundation Board decided on June 29, 2021: Dr. Dagmar Hirschfelder, who currently heads the paintings and graphics department of the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg, wi

SPK Annual Reports After sixty years, the SPK Annual Report replaces the time-honored SPK Yearbook that has faithfully recorded the Foundation’s events for posterity since 1958. Slim, modern, and discursive – a new print product was born in 2018. What happened at the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesi