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  1. Petersburg dialogue has been supporting and accompanying cultural projects for ten years (15.07.2010)

    The umbrella theme of the 10th "Petersburg Dialogue" from 13 to 15 July 2010 was "German and Russian society in the next decade". Around 300 experts from all areas of society from both countries took part in the eight working groups in Yekaterinburg. In his opening speech for the Culture Working Gro

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Smithsonian Institution launch German-American exchange programme on provenance research (18.10.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI, Washington, USA), two of the world's largest museum complexes and research institutions, are launching a project to systematically network German and American provenance researchers. The three-year "German-American

  3. Professor Axel Marx and his family donate important works by the artist Joseph Beuys from the Erich Marx Collection to SPK (08.09.2022)

    Donation contract signed - Axel Marx: Our family remains connected to the art city of Berlin - Hermann Parzinger: Overwhelming gesture from the family The family of the well-known Berlin collector Erich Marx, who died two years ago, has donated the entire holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys

  4. New Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage published (22.12.2006)

    The 42nd volume of the yearbook presents the Foundation's activities in 2005, but also deals with topics that will remain relevant over a longer period of time: for example, it is dedicated to the Foundation's losses during and after the Second World War. Many of the Berlin museums' treasures looted

  5. Masterpieces of the world at a click - The bpk picture agency offers a highly professional service for media, business and science (18.02.2015)

    With today's launch of the new image portal of the picture agency bpk www.bpk-images.de, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is making a unique pool of high-quality images from the fields of art, culture and history available for commercial use. In the joint online shop of the world's most ren

  6. #UNITE4HERITAGE: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation cooperates with UNESCO in the fight against illegal trade in Syrian and Iraqi antiquities - New SPK magazine dedicated specifically to this topic (26.06.2015)

    In order to curb the illegal trade in antiquities from Iraq and Syria, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and UNESCO will work more closely together in future. A cooperation agreement to this effect has now been signed. The cooperation will focus on awareness-raising measures (as part of the

  7. SPK cooperates with Colombia (16.09.2022)

    The Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin holds two masks from the indigenous Kogi community from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. They are objects with a ritual background and still have sacred significance for the Kogi, whose self-designation is "Kágaba". Because of th

  8. The "simplicity of the single element" (19.06.2024)

    Art-in-architecture competition for depots and workshops of the National Museums in Berlin decided The winning design "Ode to Care" by Rayyane Tabet will enrich the inner courtyard of the depots and workshops of the National Museums in Berlin-Friedrichshagen. The competition was organised by the Fed

  9. New rooms - new lines of sight - new views (11.01.2018)

    The construction site of the James-Simon-Galerie on Museum Island opens up new perspectives Berlin. Since the topping-out ceremony in April 2016, the James-Simon-Galerie has been visibly taking shape as the central entrance building to Berlin's Museum Island, both from the outside and the inside. Hi

  10. Thanksgiving - cultural forum invites you to a table in the countryside (24.09.2024)

    After two successful "Days in the Green", the neighbours of the Kulturforum invite you to the Tafel im Grünen on 6 October 2024 and offer an extensive programme. As part of Museum Sunday, all the museums can be visited free of charge from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. This year, the Gemäldegalerie, Kupferstichk