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  1. Annual Press Conference

    Annual Press Conference At the beginning of each year, the SPK and its institutions provide information about selected highlights of the year at a reception. Since 2018, the annual reception has been held at various locations within the Foundation. The accompanying press materials provide an overvie

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. Decision by the Board of Trustees: Klaus Biesenbach becomes Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie and the Museum of the 20th Century (10.09.2021)

    Decision by the Board of Trustees: Klaus Biesenbach becomes Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie and thus the new museum of the 20th century - The Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and long-time MoMA Chief Curator will take up the post on 1 January 2022 - Parzinger:

  10. Results of provenance research on skulls from German East Africa published (18.01.2023)

    Parzinger: We are ready for immediate return and are waiting for signals from the countries of origin In a project launched in 2017, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin) worked with scientis