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  1. Conservation and Restoration

    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

  2. Locations of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz

    Locations of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) has its seat in Berlin. The many buildings of its institutions are found in various locations in the city. Some of them are historical sites of the Prussian collections.

  3. Nine-and-a-half weeks – and then... (20.07.2021)

    Today, the first exhibitions in the Humboldt Forum open to the public. From September 22, visitors can admire ethnological collections and Asian art occupying a floor area of 17,000 square meters Anticipation is growing: nine and a half weeks after the first exhibitions open in the Humboldt Forum co

  4. Highlights of the Collections in Dahlem (13.12.2013)

    During the period when Germany was divided, a wide variety of museums were located in Dahlem. The location did not develop a more focused identity until after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Today one finds there not only the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Secret State Archives Prussi

  5. Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Vol. 51 / 2015

    Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Vol. 51 / 2015 Among the topics covered in the 51st issue are the challenges posed to museums by the current debate on immigration and closed borders, the Foundation's contribution to protecting cultural heritage, and the way ahead for the German-Russian Museum di

  6. Current Advisory Board

    Current Advisory Board Laurence des Cars President of the Musée du Louvre Special expertise in the subject areas: Universal museum, Europe, international museum engagement Didier Houénoudé Art historian Special expertise in the subject areas: African art, decolonisation Richard Kurin Advisor to the

  7. SPK reform commission: more individual responsibility for the institutions (11.03.2021)

    At its meeting yesterday, the reform commission of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) dealt in detail with the situations at three of its institutions. The commission's deliberations on the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB – Berlin State Library), the Ibero

  8. Lost Work by Eduard Gaertner Returns to Kupferstichkabinett (24.03.2022)

    Work by Eduard Gaertner back in the Kupferstichkabinett: Believed lost in wartime, but recognized at auction; donated to the museum by its prospective seller. Eduard Gaertner’s Der Leipziger Platz in Berlin (1862) has recently been returned to the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings).

  9. Restitution of Fritz Huf’s Sculpture by the SPK (28.03.2022)

    The sculpture "Ruhende Frau", by Fritz Huf, was restored to the heir of Hans (Jean) Fürstenberg and then purchased by the SPSG for the park at Schloss Schönhausen. On April 5, 2022, the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz (National Museums in Berlin) will t

  10. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb

    Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb Once a year, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz awards a prize for outstanding young musicians. This is presented in cooperation with the Rectors' Conference of German Conservatories and Berlin University of the Arts. Detail of a poster for the Fel