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  1. Ingolf Kern takes over as Head of the Media and Communications Department of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (26.09.2014)

    On 1 October 2014, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will establish a new Media and Communications Department. The 48-year-old journalist Ingolf Kern will take over as head. Kern was previously spokesman for the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation for five years and editor in charge o

  2. New beginnings, upheavals (26.03.2026)

    The topping-out ceremony for berlin modern shows that a new museum is taking shape here, one that will take visitors on a tour d’horizon through the wild art of the 20th century, spanning an unprecedented range of media

  3. New beginnings, upheavals (26.03.2026)

    The topping-out ceremony for berlin modern shows that a new museum is taking shape here, one that will take visitors on a tour d’horizon through the wild art of the 20th century, spanning an unprecedented range of media

  4. SPK will return human remains to Australia (11.09.2020)

    Human remains in the collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin are returned to Australia. The Australian government has been in dialogue with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) for several years regarding human remains from the collections of the Ethnologi

  5. Press conference at the Museum of Photography: The estate of Leni Riefenstahl - an interim balance of research (22.01.2026)

    Leni Riefenstahl's estate - donated to the SPK in 2018 in disorganised boxes containing photos, films, notes, letters, manuscripts and other documents - has since been successively processed and made accessible for use. The holdings harbour enormous research potential. At the same time, the collecti

  6. Media worlds - knowledge, information and communication in the digital revolution (27.08.2014)

    As part of the event "Mediale Welten - Wissen, Information und Kommunikation im digitalen Umbruch", experts will discuss the consequences and development potential of digital communication technologies and the associated future changes to the world of work in the fields of science and research on 1

  7. 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

  8. Return from the Ethnological Museum to Native People in Alaska (16.05.2018)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned nine objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. Foundation President Hermann Parzinger presented them to the Vice President of the Chugach Alaska Corporation, Joh

  9. Nazi-looted art: SPK restitutes to Cassirer heirs (03.03.2025)

    SPK restitutes two works by Max Slevogt to the heirs of Bruno Cas-sirer and buys back both works. The painting "Portrait of Bruno Cassirer", the purchase of which was made possible by the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, will be exhibited in the Alte Nationalgalerie from March 4, 2025 SPK has restit

  10. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation with future newsletter (05.06.2015)

    From July 2015, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will publish a monthly newsletter. Subscribers receive the best overview of what is happening at the Foundation and the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library, the Ibero-American Institute, the State Institute for Music Research