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Run by the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek, the portal offers an initial content of around 8,000 entries for collection items that come from a colonial context. The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) has opened the online portal "Collections from Colonial Contexts" for public use at

The provenance of human skulls from what was German West Africa is being investigated in a three-year joint research project at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte. It is funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. The collections of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschi

Long-term conservation of Heinrich Schliemann's files The Koordinierungsstelle für die Erhaltung des schriftlichen Kulturguts (Coordination Office for the Preservation of the Written Cultural Heritage) (KEK) has made funds available for conservation work to secure the long-term survival of files lef

The genetic investigations on six skulls from the collection of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History (Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin) have been completed. There was no match with the DNA of Mangi Meli. Mangi Meli (1866-1900) was executed by the German colon

A new media station in the Alte Nationalgalerie and an online portal with recent research results on the Mosse Collection were launched today in the presence of Roger Strauch, president of the Mosse Foundation. One year ago, the Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI) was launched. The aim of MARI is t

The „Mosse Art Research Initiative“ (MARI) was presented to the public today. SPK is partner to the project which is an unprecedented initiative in provenance research. The collections of the publisher Rudolf Mosse (1843–1920) contained thousands of pictures, sculptures, art objects, books, and anti

SPK Magazine no. 2/2015 marks the 25th anniversary of the reunification of the Prussian cultural heritage collections. Staff who experienced the historic events of that period tell us their stories. Links for Additional Information SPK-Magazine 2/2015: Go on, cross the border! History of the Stiftun

Four of the five institutions of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) have buildings at the Kulturforum. During the period when Berlin was divided, it was the location where most of the new buildings were constructed. Today the Foundation is working to estab

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

The Museumsinsel (Museum Island) and the original building of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library) are located in Berlin’s historical center. In the future, the Foundation will present its museums’ non-European collections at the Humboldt-Forum there as well. More on the Museuminsel