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  1. How do we build the future?" Annual report 2021 describes the internal change at SPK (30.06.2022)

    The 2021 Annual Report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has just been published. SPK President Hermann Parzinger writes in the editorial that the past twelve months have been characterised above all by "a longing for normality". Despite the pandemic-related impositions, many visitors onc

  2. Benin bronzes: Agreement for repatriation still in 2022 (28.06.2022)

    SPK President Parzinger: Objects should be returned to Nigeria "as quickly as possible" - Long-term loans at the Humboldt Forum An agreement on the transfer of ownership and loans for the so-called Benin bronzes in the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin is to be

  3. Decision by the Board of Trustees: Carolin Schreiber heads the Department of Manuscripts and Historical Prints at the State Library (28.06.2022)

    New addition comes from the Bavarian State Library - Focus on user-orientation and basic research - Parzinger: New department well positioned From autumn 2022, Dr Carolin Schreiber will take over the management of the newly formed "Manuscripts and Historical Prints" department at the Staatsbibliothe

  4. Return of the Berlin Benin bronzes (25.08.2022)

    Ownership of all Berlin "Benin Bronzes" transferred to Nigeria - around a third of the works remain on loan in Berlin - further collaboration planned Today Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director General of the National Commissio

  5. Books restituted to the descendants of the French politician Georges Mandel (15.07.2022)

    Restitution from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and SLUB Dresden - Heirs of Georges Mandel receive books in Paris - Minister of State for Culture Roth: "Keeping the memory of the victims alive" The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) have

  6. Time and temporality: The Dahlem Research Campus invites you to a day of action on 7 October (29.09.2022)

    Workshops, guided tours behind the scenes, science slam: For the first time, there will be an opportunity to get to know the newly designated location - Location: Dahlem Research Campus, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin Over the next few years, the Dahlem Research Campus will be established at the Dahlem

  7. SPK cooperates with Colombia (16.09.2022)

    The Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin holds two masks from the indigenous Kogi community from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. They are objects with a ritual background and still have sacred significance for the Kogi, whose self-designation is "Kágaba". Because of th

  8. Professor Axel Marx and his family donate important works by the artist Joseph Beuys from the Erich Marx Collection to SPK (08.09.2022)

    Donation contract signed - Axel Marx: Our family remains connected to the art city of Berlin - Hermann Parzinger: Overwhelming gesture from the family The family of the well-known Berlin collector Erich Marx, who died two years ago, has donated the entire holdings of works by the artist Joseph Beuys

  9. Day in the green at the Berlin Kulturforum (05.09.2022)

    Thousands of "Sunday excursionists" attended concerts, performances, readings, guided tours and church services yesterday and dined at the summer table in Sigismundstraße. All neighbouring residents had opened their gardens and green spaces to visitors as part of the cultural summer festival. The co

  10. Welfenschatz: U.S. District Court dismisses lawsuit (30.08.2022)

    Court finds: Action for surrender of Guelph treasure inadmissible - case does not belong before US courts Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., ruled in favour of the SPK's motion to dismiss the claim for the return of the Guelph Treasure. The lawsuit w