About the Museum

Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bildagentur_f%C3%BCr_Kunst,_Kultur_und_Geschichte

Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte

The Picture Agency for Art, Culture and History (bpk) is an institution of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and was founded in 1966 as the Picture Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage. The photo agency is housed in a house named after Otto Nagel on the Märkisches Ufer in Berlin’s Mitte district and claims to have twelve million photos, caricatures and drawings from the fields of art, culture and history.

In organizational terms, the photo agency is a department of the Berlin State Library.

Karen Tieth has been the head of bpk since January 2019.