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Repurchase of a Kirchner etching after restitution
16.08.2017 - The SPK has returned nine works of art to the heirs of the Jewish businessman and collector Eugen Moritz Buchthal. It has repurchased an etching by E. L. Kirchner for the…
Theo Eshetu and the Dahlem Museums on documenta14
14.08.2017 - Video artist Theo Eshetu has been following the move of the Dahlem museums into the Humboldt-Forum for a documentary film he is making. At documenta 14, he is showing Atlas…
Spectacular Exhibition in Fall 2018 to Reveal Europe’s Roots
10.08.2017 - The continent from below: in 2018, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte and the Verband der Landesarchäologen will be holding an exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau titled “Bewegte…
„Of Course Provenance Research Is Being Done“
08.08.2017 - Conducting provenance research on ethnological collections is often more difficult than research on Nazi-confiscated art, the president of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz,…
Project launched to investigate the origin of human skulls
02.08.2017 - For the next two years, the SPK is studying the exact origin of about a thousand skulls from the former colony of German East Africa. The Gerda Henkel Foundation is funding the…
Parzinger on cultural heritage law: illegal trade no longer a trivial offense
02.08.2017 - One year ago, the Act to Amend the Law on the Protection of Cultural Property came into force. The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz draws a positive conclusion.
We Do Not Forget
19.07.2017 - Eighty years ago today, the Nazis opened their propaganda exhibition „Degenerate Art“ in Munich. The SPK sees it as her their duty to ensure that the horrors and effects of this…
Bode Museum Coin Robbery: Parzinger Thanks the Berlin Police Force
17.07.2017 - SPK President hopes for „further progress towards solving the case“ of the Big Maple Leaf
Here’s to Good Neighbors!
19.06.2017 - On the way to the Humboldt Forum with new neighbors: even during the relocation process, highlights from the Museum für Asiatische Kunst and the Ethnologisches Museum of the…
Apply now for PREP 2018!
15.06.2017 - The German-American Provenance Research Exchange Program (PREP) will hold its 2018 exchanges in Los Angeles and Munich. The deadline for applications is September 15, 2017