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  1. Rehearsal for the Voyage to the Humboldt Forum (03.07.2015)

    Elaborately packaged and lifted by crane out through the window – with skillful handling and under the watchful eye of the scientists, a South Seas boat travels from the Martin-Gropius-Bau back to the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) in Dahlem. For three months, numerous objects from the

  2. Sale of the Guelph Treasure in 1935 (06.01.2015)

    The Guelph Treasure is one of the most important collections of medieval ecclesiastical art. It has been subject to a restitution claim since 2008. In 2015, plaintiffs filed a lawsuit in the U.S. that SPK believes has no merit. The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Founda

  3. The Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts Is Coming (14.11.2019)

    On November 14, 2019, the Budget Committee of the Bundestag approved the funds for a new building in the Kulturforum. The planned budget for the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century) of the Nationalgalerie (National Gallery) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in

  4. About us

    About us With its museums, libraries, archives, and research institutes, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) is one of the important cultural institutions in the world. Its outstanding collections include all areas of cultural tradition: from archaeological

  5. Generous Donation: Two Ruble Gold Coin Completes Set (14.11.2017)

    Vladimir Matveyev's gift to the Münzkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is valuable in more than one way: the two-ruble gold coin of Catherine the Great completes the set of coins from her reign. The permanent exhibition at the Münzkabinett (Coin Cabinet) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (

  6. SPK welcomes recommendation of the Advisory Commission on the Welfenschatz restitution request (20.03.2014)

    The Advisory Commission chaired by Prof. Jutta Limbach that handles issues concerning the return of cultural artifacts confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution today recommended not to offer restitution for what is known as the Welfenschatz (Guelph Treasure) of the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of D

  7. Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Technik

    Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Technik The SPK and the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin work together in the areas of conservation, research, storage, and presentation of cultural heritage. It takes the form of both joint projects and teaching. The students of restoration at the HTW in Be

  8. Natural stone, clay plaster walls, and a gigantic wooden roof structure (26.10.2020)

    The interior of the Humboldt Forum is coming along nicely. A generous grant from the Kuratorium Preussischer Kulturbesitz has made it possible to commission Wang Shu – one of the most significant architects in China today – to design the space for exhibiting Chinese imperial court art from the colle

  9. Iron Age exhibition opens in St Petersburg with objects from Berlin (10.11.2020)

    Some 1600 objects illustrate developments in the first millennium B.C. Almost half of them once belonged to the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, but owing to the war are now in Russian museums. The exhibition "Iron Age – Europe Without Borders" can be seen from November 11, 2020 to February 28, 2

  10. Sword Bearers Under a Dome (02.09.2020)

    It has taken three separate shipments to bring the original wall paintings from Dahlem to the Humboldt Forum, where over the next few months they will be brought together in a partial reconstruction of the Cave of the Sixteen Sword Bearers – the first time that they can be seen as a unified composit