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  1. Foundation Board sets course for management positions at the National Museums in Berlin (25.11.2020)

    Directorate of the Gemäldegalerie to be re-advertised - Management of the Nationalgalerie to be divided into three positions - Grütters and Parzinger thank Michael Eissenhauer On 23 November 2020, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Cu

  2. Federal and state governments conclude new funding agreement for the SPK / Parzinger: Historic step and important signal for the reform process (03.01.2025)

    Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the Minister Presidents of the federal states have agreed on a new funding agreement for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) by circular resolution. According to the agreement, the federal and state governments will increase their annual contributions t

  3. Card catalogues of the State Library will continue to be preserved for the time being (16.02.2026)

    Great interest in researching card catalogues at State Library symposium - catalogues will be preserved for the time being The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin recently hosted an academic discussion entitled "Card catalogues. Untouchable cultural asset, active object of research or substitutable historica

  4. Annual press conference 2008 (25.02.2008)

    On 25 February 2008, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects, developments and exhibitions were also presented, reports were given on building projects and a review of 2007 was giv

  5. Egyptian Museum in Berlin with new management (26.06.2009)

    At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected Dr Friederike Seyfried as the future Director of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin. She will succeed Professor Dr Dietrich Wildung in July 2009, who

  6. Humboldt Forum (07.06.2010)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments on today's decision by the Federal Government Cabinet to postpone the start of construction of the Berlin Palace - Humboldt Forum from 2011 to 2014: "I very much regret that today's cabinet decision will lead to a co

  7. Annual press conference 2012 (07.02.2012)

    On 7 February 2012, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects, developments and exhibitions were also presented, reports were given on building projects and a review of 2011 was give

  8. 7th Day of Provenance Research on 9 April 2025 at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (08.04.2025)

    The International Day of Provenance Research is taking place for the seventh time this year. On this day, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will once again provide insights into the diverse work of provenance researchers. In addition to the traditional guided provenance walks in cooperation with other

  9. The return of the Benin bronzes begins (16.12.2022)

    Ten Benin objects from the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage will be physically restituted to Nigeria in a few days. They are among the 514 Benin objects for which the SPK already transferred ownership to Nigeria in the summer. On 25 August 2022, Herm

  10. Now new: The fresh SPKmagazine - online! (31.03.2023)

    The SPK's new web magazine is better, fresher, richer in images. Completely new presentation of content from the SPK's entire range of topics at spkmagazin.de, made possible by the Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz With the launch of SPKmagazin, SPK presents its immense thematic breadth in a new o