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Beginning in 2019, the Humboldt Forum will showcase the cultures of the world – but where in Berlin can museum-goers actually experience architecture? The SPK’s president, Hermann Parzinger, makes a plea for the completion of the historical center of Berlin. When the 175th anniversary of the death o

The most important Weimar-era silent films about Berlin are being shown at the Musikinstrumenten-Museum as part of its Wednesday evening film series By Kevin Hanschke Neon signs turn night into day. People stream into pleasure palaces. Elevated trains hurtle between the buildings. Traffic backs up a

On February 12, 2018, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, talked to the Tagesspiegel about the Humboldt Forum, ways of dealing with objects from the colonial era, and provenance research. The Humboldt Forum is due to open at the end of 2019. It will enable the col

Prussian Secret State Archives Glimpses of the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz Multiteaser headline Restoration of a map from the Gudwallen office of East Prussia from the eighteenth century © SPK / Pierre Adenis Restoring missing fragments of a document from the Prussian Ministry of

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek gives its users access to Germany’s cultural and intellectual heritage and encompasses books, music, works of art, films, photographs, documents, manuscripts and much more. Panorama Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Th

SPK President hopes for „further progress towards solving the case“ of the Big Maple Leaf The President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Foundation), Hermann Parzinger, has thanked the Berlin police force for its „excellent detective work into the burglary at the Bode Mus

In June 2016, the Foundation returned 384 books to a Masonic lodge. The SPK has previously returned other works to these “forgotten victims” of National Socialism Speaking at the handover ceremony, Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, pointed out that: “It was not only Jews that were persecuted,

Today, the SPK Foundation Board adopted a framework for the structural reform of the Foundation based on the recommendations of the SPK Reform Commission. The museums, libraries, archives and research institutions of the SPK will be granted significantly more autonomy. At the same time, they will pu

Rathgen-Forschungslabor The internationally networked Rathgen-Forschungslabor examines objects ranging from ancient times to the present day. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to clarifying matters of preservation, material, origin, and forgery. The seated figure of Hetepnjaus from the Ägyptisc

The subject of Kunst durch Kredit [Art as collateral ] (De Gruyter, 2017) is the purchase of some 4,400 works of art from the holdings of the Dresdner Bank by the government of Prussia on behalf of the Berlin museums in 1935. The book's author, Lynn Rother, examines this deal in the context of art h