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The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently transferred ownership of the two watercolours "Susanna" (1914) and "Mother and Child" (1918) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) to the heiress of the art critic and collector Paul Westheim, Dr Margit Frenk. The works were purchased by the Prussian Cul

On 19 April 2022, the RAICES and LELOIR prizes were awarded in Buenos Aires to four Argentinian and three international scholars. Barbara Göbel, Director of the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), is one of this year's winners of the LELOIR Prize. The P

The series supported by the Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz comes to an end this Thursday with a final event - the opening of the building at the Kulturforum remains a central theme After four years, the "Design Lab" discussion and lecture series at the Kunstgewerbemuseum ends this Thursday with

Stefan Simon, Director of the Rathgen Research Laboratory at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, is the first SPK employee to be awarded a Distinguished Research Chair by the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Programme. In the academic year 2024-2025, Simon will work on his research project "Cultural Heritage and

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

Museums in Germany reported a total of 110,425,002 visits in 2013. This is the second-highest number of visits since the first complete survey began in 1981. Only in the previous year 2012 was the figure slightly higher (2.1 per cent). The 8,942 special exhibitions organised by German museums contri

With a unanimous decision by the representatives of the federal government and the state of Berlin on the board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the future design of the Pergamon Museum, the visitor guidance and the presentation of the collections have now been finalised, including the

Provenance research with Namibian scientists at the Ethnological Museum - Objects travel to Windhoek - Networking with cultural heritage communities, artists and the public in Namibia in the project "Confronting Colonial Pasts, Envisioning Creative Futures" As part of a partnership between the Museu

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

TICKETS ON SALE Chamber concerts 'Notturno' They are a hit with audiences, and not just for night owls: Since 2010, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz has opened its doors for the DSO's 'Notturno' series. At 8 p.m., when the museum closes, the encounter between art and music entices visitors to e