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  1. Intensification of the long-term collaboration with the Marx Collection and strengthening of the "Hamburger Bahnhof" brand agreed (13.07.2007)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the collector Erich Marx have now reached supplementary and selective new agreements as a sustainable basis for the future-oriented work of the "Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart". Accordingly, the Marx Collection will be curated exclusively by th

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over brick fragment from the 3rd millennium BC to Iraq (28.04.2015)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today handed over a brick fragment from the 3rd millennium BC to Iraq. A private individual sent the valuable piece by post to the Vorderasiatisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in March 2015 and gave it to the museum as a gift for further safek

  3. Hidden Gems with Andrea Wiethoff: IAI, mi amor!

    18.03.2026 Hidden Gems: Ephemeral Clouds Article Andrea Wiethoff has been working at the SPK since 2024 and has been employed as a foreign language assistant in the reception area of the SPK’s Media, Communication and Events Department since September 2025. Her favourite place: the Ibero-American In

  4. Research into the provenance of a historical collection of human remains from West Africa begins at SPK (14.09.2021)

    The federal government is funding a three-year research project on human remains from West Africa at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History The collections of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin include 477 human skulls that were brought to Germany from W

  5. Opportunity or burden? Reform of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (06.12.2023)

    Dossier on the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation published by Politik & Kultur What does the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation do? And above all, what makes it special? Who and what belongs to it? Who wants to have a say in its future organisation? What is its history? Is the necessary trans

  6. Conference "Cultural property in danger: looted excavations and illegal trade" (11.11.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute and the German Association for Archaeology are organising an international conference in Berlin on 11 and 12 December in cooperation with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Federal Forei

  7. Repatriations from the Ethnological Museum: (02.12.2025)

    Foundation Board authorises Marion Ackermann to return objects with human remains to Ghana and to hold talks with Australian authorities about spiritual objects The Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin has four objects from Kpando in present-day Ghana with human remains attached to

  8. "Das Reichskammergericht im Spiegel seiner Prozessakten - Bilanz und Perspektiven der Forschung", a conference organised by the German Research Foundation at the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage (08.04.2008)

    From 10 to 13 April 2008, a conference on the Imperial Chamber Court will take place at the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin-Dahlem, attended by 40 lawyers, historians and archivists from Germany and abroad (Austria, Belgium, Netherlands). By organising this event, the G

  9. Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof extended until 2021 (16.05.2011)

    The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, which has been on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart since September 2004, will continue to be presented there in the coming years. The current loan relationship, which was agreed for seven years and would have ended in autumn 2011, will

  10. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation becomes a full member (06.07.2011)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) has been elected a full member of the German Research Foundation (DFG). This was decided today at the DFG's General Assembly in Bonn. For Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, this decision is a great success and a