Marion Ackermann has been appointed president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz or SPK), the organization that manages Berlin’s state museums. She is now the first woman to hold the executive position.
SPK is Germany’s largest cultural employer, with around 2,000 employees and 4.7 million objects in 15 museums in Berlin, as well as libraries, research institutes and archives. Current president Hermann Parzinger will retire at the end of May after 17 years in office.
Ackermann, who is currently director general of the Dresden State Museums, will manage a “major overhaul” of the state-funded organization after a two-year, 278-page study published in 2020 said SPK was “too big to work. efficiently.”
She was unanimously chosen by a search committee that included Germany’s Culture Minister Claudia Roth, and will officially take office on June 1 next year. She also served on the foundation’s advisory board for several years. In a press statement released by SPK, Roth called Ackermann “an excellent museum manager, art expert and strategist who is well connected both nationally and internationally.”
“One of the big factors in her appointment was her proven track record in successfully modeling transformational processes,” Roth said. “I am sure that he will bring the comprehensive reform of SPK to an excellent conclusion and lead the foundation into a sustainable and successful future with great expertise, new ideas and a lot of energy.”
Ackermann was the general director of the Dresden State Museums since 2016. The Dresden State Museums, whose 15 institutions receive more than 2 million visitors annually.
Main Image :c SPK/photothek/Felix Zahn
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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