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- The spoken word prevails - Salutations, In the long shared history of Germany and Russia, the past 20th century was undoubtedly a special one with very dark but also brighter days. There was unimaginable suffering and inconceivable crimes that emanated from German soil and were committed in German

The SPK Lab is looking for users of cultural heritage data who can help us draw up and implement new formats to encourage use of the digital material in our collections and holdings, whether by scholars, artists, or others working outside academia. Would you like to help us find the best ways of mak

Conservation and Restoration Many highly specialized staff are employed throughout the Foundation to preserve vulnerable cultural heritage artifacts. They perform restoration or conservation work and prevent damage occurring. Preserving unique cultural objects: restore and digitize genealogical tabl

Global Network for Protecting Cultural Heritage The Foundation is committed to international action in response to the worldwide threat to cultural heritage. A collaborative project is investigating illicit trade and devising new methods of protecting cultural assets. "Cultural Heritage in Danger: I

Cultural Education Numerous people from Germany and abroad visit and use the Foundation’s museums, libraries, and archives. Its offerings to impart culture and fulfill its task of educating are correspondingly broad. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin offer children and young people of all ages a varie

SPK President Hermann Parzinger on long-standing cultural relations with Russia and the fatal consequences of the Ukraine war SPK President Hermann Parzinger wrote this text earlier this week. We aren't going to update it, even if events have overtaken it, because it deals with the possibilities of

Palmyra has been freed, but the civil war continues – and with it the threat to Syria's cultural heritage. To discuss its protection, UNESCO convened a conference of experts in Berlin early in June 2016. For Zoya Masoud, this was the perfect place to talk about humanitarian aid. June 8, 2016 Zoya Ma

The Guelph Treasure, the largest German church treasure owned by a public art collection, is preserved in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. The Prussian state purchased it from a consortium of dealers in 1935. In January 2008, the heirs of these dealers, who were Jewish, asked the Prussian Cultu

museum4punkt0 is the name of a recently launched, cross-institutional “ideas laboratory“ for digital applications in museums. We spoke about it with Markus Hilgert, manager of the project and director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. What are your expectations of t

Forschungscampus Dahlem nimmt Gestalt an Wie sollte der Forschungscampus Dahlem Ihrer Meinung nach aussehen? Am Grundriss konnte am Aktionstag jeder*r selbst mitgestalten. © SPK/photothek.de/Thomas Trutschel Was werden die Besucherinnen und Besucher des Forschungscampus Dahlem in den nächsten Jahren