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Contact Information for the Central Administration Department of Media, Communication, Events and Central Visitor Services, Museums The department is in charge of the SPK's Public Relations, Media activities, marketing, and events. The department attends to topics concerning all of the foundation's

What is the state of relations between EU and CELAC as regional blocs on either side of the Atlantic? This question is being explored by a team of experts in an EU project called EULAC Focus. Among those taking part is the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut. March 2016 marked the launch of an internation

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

German-American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP) for Museum Professionals, 2017–2019 The German/American exchange program PREP was set up jointly by the SPK and the Smithsonian Institution. Its purpose was to create a strategic network of provenance researchers in museums in both countrie

Replace the “Song of the Germans”? Do away with the national anthem? Just sweep unity and justice and freedom under the carpet of history? No, that is not what the Foundation is trying to do, even if some of the media have given the story that slant. First, a little back-story: 2016 is the 175th ann

Over the next few years, a new museum building for twentieth-century art will rise at the Kulturforum. The new website will follow the design and construction process up until the opening. The new website for the new museum building at the Kulturforum went online in August 2016. It furnishes informa

Mohammed's home, Syria, lies in ruins, but he still believes in the future. To symbolize it, he has made a wing of concrete for the exhibition "daHEIM – glances into fugitive lives", now showing at the Museum Europäischer Kulturen. Mohammed Concrete's home lies in ruins. Rubble covers the ground on

Beginning in 1962, there are three former presidents of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz: Hans-Georg Wormit, Werner Knopp, and Klaus-Dieter Lehmann. There are two former vice presidents: Peter Hofmann and Norbert Zimmermann. Links for Additional Information President and Vice President History

Priorities The activities of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) cover a broad spectrum of areas. One of its tasks is preserving and building the collections entrusted to it as well as making them accessible and doing research on them. Another of its core t

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