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At its meeting on March 24, 2021, the Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) considered, among other matters, the treatment of objects with colonial contexts in the collections. This included the issue of the Benin bronzes. The Foundation Board welcom

The Department of Organization, Budget and Financial Services at the Central Administration of the SPK is getting a new head. Dirk Ueckert will take up the position on July 1, 2020. Born in 1971 in Schleswig-Holstein, he has a wide range of knowledge and experience in the areas of work concerned. Ue

Lending will be possible again in the SPK libraries from 4 May, reading rooms will remain closed. The museums are preparing to open individual houses. The SPK museums, libraries and archives have been closed since 14 March 2020. With the current relaxation of the containment measures by the State of

With the "Vogel Phoenix", a richly illustrated reader, the SPK is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a look "from the outside" at the variety of themes and projects. Companions from the world of cultural policy, colleagues in the arts and sciences, in museums and libraries, friends and patrons, a

The Berggruen Museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg is to be extended according to the plans of architects Kuehn Malvezzi. This was announced today as the result of a selection process. The extension is linked to over seventy high-calibre long-term loans that the Berggruen family is making available to th

The "Forum Transregionale Studien" was founded on 16 October 2009 at the official residence of the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. It is based on a recommendation by the Berlin Science Commission, which sees this type of study as a special opportunity to raise Berlin's intern

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) recently returned a late medieval alabaster relief to the heiress of its former owner Harry Fuld Junior, the Magen David Adom UK (MDAUK), the English funding organisation of the Israeli aid organisation Red Star of David. However, the work, which was t

Olaf Metzel (Munich) and Tobias Rehberger (Frankfurt am Main) have won the art-in-architecture competition for the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's Unter den Linden building. From tomorrow, all submitted designs will be on display in the Potsdamer Straße building. On 20 November 2009, the winners of the

Europe's cultural and scientific heritage is preserved in numerous national cultural institutions. The EU has launched the "Europeana" project to facilitate access to this heritage. The internet portal www.europeana.eu links to around 12 million digital objects to date and is set to be significantly

Museums in Germany reported a total of 106,820,203 museum visits in 2009. This represents an increase of 1.9 per cent compared to 2008. The Institute for Museum Research at the National Museums in Berlin, an institution of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, in co-operation with the German Mu