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  1. "museum4punkt0": Sub-project Migration Museum 4.0 (08.05.2017)

    "museum4punkt0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future" starts today. The Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven is involved with the sub-project "Migration Museum 4.0". The German Emigration Centre Bremerhaven is Germany's only migration museum: it presents both the history of German overseas migrat

  2. Portal on coins of the Ostrogoths launched (17.02.2025)

    Together with international partners, the Münzkabinett Berlin has set up a new digital type catalogue on the coinage of the Ostrogoths in Italy, the OCOI - Online Coinage of Ostrogothic Italy. For the first time, the digital catalogue allows freely available research within the coinage of the Ostrog

  3. East Asia Department of the Berlin State Library with new director (01.08.2006)

    At the end of July, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appointed Matthias Kaun, 38, as Head of the East Asia Department of the Berlin State Library. Mr Kaun studied Sinology, Asian History and Public Law. With over 1 million items, the East Asia Department is the larg

  4. museum4punkt0: The joint project led by the SPK is being extended (21.12.2020)

    The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media is continuing to fund museum4punkt0 with ten million euros in 2021. Together with ten new partners, cultural institutions across Germany are developing and testing digital offerings for new ways of learning, experiencing and participating

  5. Far away, so close: The new SPK magazine is dedicated to the future of the Dahlem research centre (25.10.2024)

    What will become of Dahlem? From the idea of a "German Oxford" to a modern location for culture, research and teaching, the district in the south-west of Berlin has reinvented itself time and again as a museum location. 2024 is the year of Dahlem: the Geheime Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz ha

  6. Facilitating the use of digitised cultural heritage in science and education (14.11.2013)

    Five public cultural institutions join the Berlin Declaration on Open Access and publish their conditions with the best practice recommendation. On 19 November 2013, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, the Federal Archives,

  7. Sharing historical sound recordings from Latin America globally (20.10.2025)

    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

  8. Statement by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation on the "Open Letter: We demand free access to museum inventories of African artefacts in Germany!" (17.10.2019)

    Anyone who takes an unbiased look at the work of museums in Germany knows that they go to great lengths to disclose their collections and create transparency. The debate about object biographies of African collections is not a new topic for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. On the contrary:

  9. The estate of Leni Riefenstahl - an interim balance of research (30.01.2026)

    Exploitation of a collection under complex conditions - ethical-legal questions and artistic debate The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is cataloguing and researching the extensive estate of Leni Riefenstahl (1902-2003). The Art Library with its Museum of Photography, the Ethnological Museum,

  10. Provenance Research Day at the SPK: Virtual exhibition and online event with provenance researchers (13.04.2021)

    The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will once again be taking part in the third International Day of Provenance Research on 14 April - with a virtual exhibition, a digital discussion with provenance researchers and new content on the websites. The virtual exhibition "S