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The SPK returned masks made by the Kogi people to Colombia during Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urrego’s visit with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Until recently, the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin) held

The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Bayerische Staatsgemä-ldesammlungen, together with broadcasters rbb and BR, commemo-rate the victims of Nazi plunder – joint project tells forgotten life sto-ries of Jewish people based on cases of restitution – launch event in the Bode Museum – Minister

Work by Eduard Gaertner back in the Kupferstichkabinett: Believed lost in wartime, but recognized at auction; donated to the museum by its prospective seller. Eduard Gaertner’s Der Leipziger Platz in Berlin (1862) has recently been returned to the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings).

Following the completion of provenance research on skulls from German East Africa, an extensive report on the pilot project has now been published. “We are prepared to restitute these remains immediately, and we are waiting for signals from the countries of origin,” says SPK President Hermann Parzin

Ein Sanchi-Tor aus rotem Röttbacher Mainsandstein Detail des in Bamberg gefertigten Tors. Foto: SPK / Elena Then „Das ist schon was Besonderes!“, sagt Nina Graser an diesem trüben, frühherbstlich-frischen Tag auf dem Gelände des Bamberger Natursteinwerk Hermann Graser im fränkischen Bamberg. Hier wi

Der Vergessenheit entrissen Gruppenfoto der deutschen und ruandischen Wissenschaftler*innen. Foto: National Museums of Rwanda Marius Kowalak, Ethnologe am Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, war in den vergangenen Jahren mit einem Team Berliner Wissenschaftler*innen immer wieder in Ruanda. Er führte

The Museum Berggruen hits the road: travelling exhibition of major masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, and Klee to visit Japan, China, and Paris. Museum to close on September 5, 2022 for complete renovation, with reopening scheduled for 2025. Museum Berggruen is taking the show to the road wi

Last weekend, over 25,000 visitors took the opportunity to experience the recently completed Humboldt Forum. The opening weekend of the recently finished Humboldt Forum has been a complete success. Over 25,000 visitors came to see the fully furnished exhibition rooms of the Ethnologisches Museum (Et

The long-time director of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin passed away on November 28 at the age of 93. In the Cold War era, Adriaan von Müller, who was appointed director of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory and Early History) in 1