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“How will we build the future?” asks the recently published annual report of the SPK, which focuses on the internal changes underway at the Foundation and the people behind them. The 2021 Annual Report of the SPK has now been published. In his foreword, SPK President Hermann Parzinger recalls a “yea

For the first time outside of the Villa von der Heydt: At their 2017 yearly press conference at the Altes Museum, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz demonstrated that all sights are set on the Humboldt Forum and highlighted the theme of digitalization. Long before the actual opening of the Humbol

The SPK has signed the Charta der Vielfalt, Germany’s diversity charter. It hopes thus to strengthen awareness of diversity issues within the Foundation and in the exhibitions, events and other content it creates for the public. The SPK has signed Germany’s diversity charter, an industry-led initiat

Today, the SPK Foundation Board adopted a framework for the structural reform of the Foundation based on the recommendations of the SPK Reform Commission. The museums, libraries, archives and research institutions of the SPK will be granted significantly more autonomy. At the same time, they will pu

Europa Nostra, the German Cultural Heritage Committee and the SPK call for better use of cultural heritage potential – summit in Berlin with more than 70 events and 1500 guests The European Cultural Heritage Summit has agreed on a Berlin Call to Action: Europa Nostra, German Cultural Heritage Commit

SPK will return two mummified heads (Toi moko) of tattooed Māori men from the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum to New Zealand. In 2003, the government of New Zealand mandated that the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa repatriate Māori human remains to New Zealand. Hermann Parzinger, Pr

Some 1600 objects illustrate developments in the first millennium B.C. Almost half of them once belonged to the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, but owing to the war are now in Russian museums. The exhibition "Iron Age – Europe Without Borders" can be seen from November 11, 2020 to February 28, 2

Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz comments on the purchase of Hamburger Bahnhof and the neighboring Rieckhallen buildings by the German federal and Berlin state governments. “What wonderful news, a real triumph of cultural policy! The fact that the federal govern

The Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and long-time chief curator at MoMA will take over the post in 2022 Today, the Foundation Board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture and the Media, decided that K

On October 7, 2022, the public will have its first chance to visit the new Dahlem Research Campus. On the agenda are workshops, a Science Slam and behind-the-scenes tours During the next few years, the Dahlem Research Campus is being established in the museum district of Berlin-Dahlem. The Dahlem Re