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  1. Events

    Events Within the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) there are numerous events daily. All cross-institutional events and public events which are initiated by the president or in which the president is taking part are listed here. All other events are listed on

  2. Contact and Directions

    Contact and Directions Villa von der Heydt is the seat of the President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. The Central Service Unit (ZSE) supports the President in her duties. The President Since 2008, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz has been headed by its current President, Prof. Dr.

  3. Goethe-Institut

    Goethe-Institut In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, the Foundation implements cultural and educational projects. The goal of this collaboration is to help make the Foundation’s collections more visible internationally. Staged reading of Lessing’s The Jews as first part of the Goethe-Institut’s

  4. Museum of 20th Century (11.02.2016)

    The Kulturforum is due to get a new building for a museum of the 20th century. Together with the refurbished Neue Nationalgalerie, it will form a closely integrated unit. The two buildings will enable the Nationalgalerie to present its important collection of twentieth-century art in a coherent way

  5. In Memory of Erich Marx (09.09.2021)

    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

  6. International Museum Conference: Collecting Institutions between Crisis and Creativity (28.06.2022)

    Representatives of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Museu Nacional met in Rio de Janeiro to discuss future opportunities and challenges for museums, libraries and archives. On September 2, 2018, the 200-year-old National Museum o

  7. International Museum Conference: Collecting Institutions between Crisis and Creativity (28.06.2022)

    Representatives of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Museu Nacional met in Rio de Janeiro to discuss future opportunities and challenges for museums, libraries and archives. On September 2, 2018, the 200-year-old National Museum o

  8. The Foundation’s Separate Publications

    The Foundation’s Separate Publications In addition to the regular publications like the yearbook and SPK Magazine, the President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz regularly publishes thematic and collection-based studies. They can be purchased from the Webshop and in the museum shops of the

  9. Project launched to investigate the origin of human skulls (02.08.2017)

    For the next two years, the SPK is studying the exact origin of about a thousand skulls from the former colony of German East Africa. The Gerda Henkel Foundation is funding the project. Since 2011, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory and Early History) of the Staatliche Muse

  10. Dahlem

    Dahlem When Germany was still divided, many of the museums in West Berlin were located in Dahlem. After reunification, a large number of collections were transferred to Mitte. In 2021 approximately 24,000 objects from the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst moved to the Humbold