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The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) will appeal to the United States Supreme Court to dismiss the action for the return of the Guelph Treasure on the grounds that the American courts lack jurisdiction. - English version: please find PDF below German text - The Guelph Treasure is a collec

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted five works from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin to the heirs of the art dealer Heinrich Ueberall. The works had come to the museums in the course of a purchase by the Dresdner Bank in 1935. Heinrich Ueberall died in Sachsenha

Topping-out ceremony on the Museum Island Berlin Berlin. On 3 May, the topping-out ceremony for construction phase A of the basic refurbishment and extension of the Pergamon Museum was celebrated on Berlin's Museum Island. With the construction of a new staircase and the completion of the illuminate

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns the drawing to the heirs of the previous Jewish owner - the work was sold in 1939 in an emergency situation - English version: please find PDF below German text - Yesterday, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation handed over the ink brush drawing "Auf

The five institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will offer more service at all levels in future In future, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will present itself in its museums in an even more visitor-friendly and service-orientated way. For example, the foyer of the Kultur

Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage Archivstraße 12-14, 14195 Berlin 12 April 2019, 10:00 a.m. The Battle of Kunersdorf on 12 August 1759 was the most serious defeat in the Seven Years' War that Frederick the Great had to endure. He himself only narrowly escaped death or at least cap

Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel will officially open the new James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin's Museum Island on 12 July. An action day of the National Museums in Berlin is then planned for 13 July. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says: "With her commitment t

The two works "Dame im Coupé" and "Schutzmann im Winter" had been considered lost since their removal from storage during the Second World War. Now the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has succeeded in the sensational recovery of the two prints by Adolph Menzel (1815-1905). Aro

Parzinger thanks for decades of commitment: "We are cultural federalism in action" On Thursday, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, invited the Minister Presidents of the German federal states to a tour of the new James Simon Gallery on Berlin's Museum Isla

A few days ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restituted a drawing by the Romantic artist Carl Philipp Fohr from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heirs of its former owner Karl Mayer. The provenance of the work had been clarified during research as part of the provenance research project o