#BGBl. 2025 I Nr. 101Act on the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (StiftPKG) of 28 March 2025

The Act on the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (StiftPKG), published on 2 April 2025 in BGBl. I Nr. 101, establishes a comprehensive new legal framework for the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) — one of the world's largest cultural institutions — replacing the outdated 1957 founding statute. The SPK oversees the State Museums Berlin, the Berlin State Library, the Secret State Archives, the Ibero-American Institute, and the State Institute for Music Research. The law restructures the foundation's governance, clarifying the roles and responsibilities of federal and Länder stakeholders, modernising the supervisory board composition, and defining new accountability mechanisms for public funds. It updates the legal basis for the foundation's core mandate: preserving, researching, and making publicly accessible cultural heritage assets of former Prussian state institutions. New provisions address the digitalisation of collections, cross-institutional cooperation, and the handling of provenance research — particularly regarding cultural assets displaced during World War II. The law also updates staffing and civil-service rules applicable to SPK employees to align with current German public law standards. Overall, the reform is driven by years of expert recommendations for institutional modernisation, improved federal-state funding transparency, and enhanced public accountability for one of Germany's most significant publicly funded cultural bodies.

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