STAATLICHE MUSEEN

The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, with its many museums, falls under the umbrella of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation). The other organizations that fall under the auspices of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) are the Staatsbibliothek (state library of Berlin), Geheimes Staatsarchiv (an archive of Prussian state documents), the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (a specialist library of Spanish- and Portuguese-language literature), and the Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung (a musicological research institute which has its own museum: the Musikinstrumenten-Museum). The SPK was founded in 1957 to preserve and continually enrich the cultural artefacts belonging to the former state of Prussia. The SPK is funded by the federal German government and all 16 of Germany's individual states.

Primary location: Berlin Germany