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June 5 to 9, 2024: Due to maintenance work, the IT accessibility of the SPK is severely restricted, individual areas of the facilities will remain closed during this time From Wednesday, June 5, up to and including Sunday, June 9, 2024, some websites of the SPK and its institutions will be unavailab

UNESCO World Heritage The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) possesses great treasures of the intellectual and artistic production of humankind. Several of them have been declared UNESCO World Heritage. The historical ensemble was declared a UNESCO World Herit

A ceremony was held today at the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to prepare the mummified heads (Toi moko) of two tattooed Māori heads for their repatriation to New Zealand. Two toi moko from the Ethnological Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin return to New Zealand. T

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

A few weeks ago, the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin was given a valuable feather cap made by the milliner Anna Düll of Heidelberg. It is only a few months since Katrin Lindemann took up her new post as the curator of fashion and textiles at the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of De

Acquisitions New items enter the Foundation's collections in various ways. Besides federal and state government funding, assistance from private collectors, public and private charitable foundations, associations of friends, and other entities is essential. Unlike the museums, the libraries make a p

Acquisitions and Donations Acquisitions, indefinite loans, and donations enrich the holdings of the Foundation. All of the collections are continually supplemented in this way. The SPK ensures that the provenance of every new object is clarified. Eine der wichtigsten Schenkungen: Die Büste der Nofre

One of the Foundation’s greatest patrons was James Simon. His great-granddaughter, an award-winning American filmmaker, wants to learn more, and to tell her family's forgotten history in a documentary. Chris Simon is a little surprised. Almost everyone in Berlin seems to know more about her great-gr

Some 1600 objects illustrate developments in the first millennium B.C. Almost half of them once belonged to the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, but owing to the war are now in Russian museums. The exhibition "Iron Age – Europe Without Borders" can be seen from November 11, 2020 to February 28, 2

King of the Cameroonian Nso' people saw the Ngonnso' statue at the Humboldt Forum for the first time on November 12, 2022. It was a long-awaited, a well-nigh historic trip for Fon Sehm Mbinglo I. On Saturday, November 12, for the first time since he ascended the throne more than 30 years ago, the ki