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Research Services The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz provides scholars with information and hence with complex, interconnected services. The extent and quality of their holdings and expertise in the institutions provide outstanding infrastructure for research. The papers of Gerhart Hauptmann in

The German-American exchange program PREP was established by the SPK and the Smithsonian Institution to foster the formation of networks between provenance researchers in both countries. PREP stands for German-American Provenance Research Exchange Program for Museum Professionals. The program is gea

At its annual reception in 2022 at the James-Simon-Galerie, the Foundation introduced several new faces and its plans for the future. On April 27, 2022, the SPK held its annual reception. The event took place in James-Simon-Galerie, where member institutions shared a glimpse of this year's activitie

A moving memorial ceremony was held in the Hamburger Bahnhof by the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the family in memory of the great art collector Erich Marx, who died last year. Erich Marx died one year ago, at the age of 99. Today, around two hundred invited guests paid tribute to the grea

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 Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and long-time chief curator at MoMA will take over the post in 2022 Today, the Foundation Board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture and the Media, decided that K

Cluster of Excellence: “Image Knowledge Gestaltung: An interdisciplinary Laboratory” This cluster studies complex problems that cannot be solved within the boundaries of a single scholarly discipline. Fundamental design processes in the sciences are at the center of its interests. This cluster of ex

Ethnological Museum returns grave goods to indigenous peoples from Southwestern Alaska and plans further co-operation with Chugach Alaska Corporation. On May 16, Hermann Parzinger, president of Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural heritage Foundation), handed over nine objects f

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

Whenever she visited Berlin, Queen Elizabeth II showed an interest in the Staatliche Museen. In 2004, former SPK President Klaus-Dieter Lehmann gave the Queen a tour of Museumsinsel. By Klaus-Dieter Lehmann Riding in a wobbly construction hoist or taking the S-Bahn from Berlin to Potsdam is nothing