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  1. Reform of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation finalised (01.12.2025)

    New SPK Act in force - Foundation Board elects Executive Board - Articles of Association and Rules of Procedure approved Weimer: SPK becomes future-proof and even more efficient - Ackermann: New Board of Directors will be responsible for the overall strategic direction in future The new law for the

  2. museum4punkt0: Joint project for digital cultural mediation nears successful conclusion (03.05.2023)

    The Germany-wide joint project for digital cultural mediation, museum4punkt0, is presenting the results of its work at a two-day closing event that opened today at the Kulturforum in Berlin. / museum4punkt0 | workbook published as a "toolbox" for practitioners The aim of museum4punkt0 was to make mu

  3. Umbrella organisation for archaeology founded (11.10.2011)

    German archaeologists found an umbrella organisation and create a mouthpiece for politicians and the public. The founding meeting of the "German Association for Archaeology" (DVA) took place in Bremen on 4 October 2011 as part of the 7th German Archaeology Congress. Following failed attempts to unit

  4. SPK restitutes works to Oppenheim heirs (22.01.2018)

    Eleven works that belonged to Margarete Oppenheim's collection until 1936 were identified in the Kunstgewerbemuseum and the Skulpturensammlung of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. A fair and equitable solution based on the Washington Principles was found for the works, which came to the museums via d

  5. "Art, looting, restitution - forgotten life stories": SPK and SKD cooperate for educational project on Nazi art looting (10.06.2025)

    "Art, looting and restitution" continues with a new focus - Forgotten Jewish life stories as a starting point for democracy education in museums - Funding from the Federal Ministry of Youth in the "Live Democracy!" programme and from the Friede Springer Foundation - Focus on the fight against anti-S

  6. SPK restitutes Lovis Corinth painting from the Littmann Collection and subsequently receives it as a gift for the Alte Nationalgalerie (27.01.2026)

    The SPK has restituted the painting "Eleonore von Wilke" by Lovis Corinth from the collection of the Alte Nationalgalerie to the heirs of Ismar and Käthe Littmann. They subsequently donated it to the museum, where it will continue to be on display following the Corinth exhibition. Ismar Littmann (18

  7. The Magic of Tolerance

    25.10.2024 The Magic of Tolerance Article If the Museum of European Cultures didn’t already exist, it would certainly be worth inventing Let’s start with the colours. Around the university buildings in Berlin-Dahlem, it always looks as though it might rain. Not a shower or driving rain, but rather a

  8. Cost and planning certainty: ground-breaking ceremony for the Nationalgalerie's Museum of the 20th Century this autumn (17.09.2019)

    Parzinger: Great opportunity for the Kulturforum - Thanks to Minister of State for Culture Grütters, Federal Minister of Finance Scholz and the budget holders of the Bundestag: "Path of clarity taken" - Herzog: Museum will be the centrepiece of the Kulturforum The ground-breaking ceremony for the Na

  9. Museums from Africa and Europe break new ground: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Humboldt Forum support international conference in Dakar (28.04.2023)

    Museum directors from 38 African and European countries agree to establish a network, an ongoing discussion on the role of museums and cultural heritage and joint travelling exhibitions - Parzinger: "It's about a new relationship At a conference initiated and supported by the SPK, the Ethnological M

  10. Provenance research is followed by mediation: Project to research human remains from West Africa is extended (04.07.2024)

    Provenance of historical skull collection researched - funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media enables mediation in West Africa Over a period of three years, researchers from the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin have been workin