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The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today unanimously appointed Professor Dr Markus Hilgert, born in 1969, as the new Director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East at the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. He succeeds Professor Dr Beate Salje, w

Henrietta Lidchi will be the new Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art as well as Director of the Collections in the Humboldt Forum from May 2026. She succeeds Lars-Christian Koch, who has moved to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony. Henrietta Lidchi studied Anthr

Kogi ritual artefacts to be united in Colombia - SPK Ethnological Museum intensifies cooperation with indigenous community and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History The Ethnological Museum of the SPK is intensifying its collaboration with the Colombian ICANH (Instituto Colombiano de An

As part of a debate on developments since the adoption of the Washington Principles (principles of the Washington Conference in relation to works of art confiscated by the National Socialists) 20 years ago, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, stated today:

The Secret State Archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hold documents relating to one of the most significant criminal cases of the Weimar Republic: the Ministry of Justice’s files on the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg

FREE TO ENTER At the 2026 Island Festival, Sunday (7 June) will be dedicated to democracy. This is in keeping with this year’s theme for UNESCO World Heritage Day: ‘Together for Peace and Understanding’. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has therefore invited partner institutions from across

3sat and the SPK had organised an evening event on trust in museums: it sparked a wide-ranging discussion on neutrality, freedom and democratic civic culture

To mark the 125th anniversary of the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut and the Ethnologisches Museum presented wax cylinder recordings (1905-1934) from Latin America. These are now available worldwide in open access in the IAI's Digital Collections. To celebrate the 125th

The exhibition “Läuft” at the MEK examines menstruation as a cultural phenomenon. Writer Julia Völcker visited the exhibition – and was surprised by the taboos and stigmas that persist to this day.

An interview with the historian Dr Georg Eckert on his recently published book *The Heroes of Defeat: The Making of the ‘Prussian Statesman’. Continuities and Discontinuities of the Reform Era between 1806 and 1820*, published in the series *Publications from the Archives of the Prussian Cultural He