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On Monday, 9 June 2014, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, will hand over 17 archive boxes containing valuable late medieval and early modern documents to the Diksmuide City Archives. The archival documents were discovered during a re-cataloguing of the docume

23 objects from the Ethnological Museum to remain permanently in Namibia - agreement on repatriation to Tanzania also possible Namibia 23 objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin can remain in Namibia permanently. The Board of Trustees of the Prussian

The newly published conference proceedings bring together the contributions to the international symposium organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property to mark the tenth anniversary of the Washington Principles in December 2008.

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

Before he retires in May 2025, Hermann Parzinger will be on hand to answer your questions. As a prehistorian, the Foundation’s President specialises in various aspects of early human history, including the transition to a settled way of life and the emergence of equestrian nomadism (the culture of t

Foundation Board appoints reform commission to restructure the SPK – roadmap by the end of November On August 19, the Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) gave detailed consideration to the recommendations made by the governmental Science Council as

Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments on the death of the Zero artist: "Otto Piene epitomises the great spirit of optimism of the 1960s. With his works, he pushed forward into completely new dimensions of art. His installation in the Neue Nationalgalerie

Francesco Stella (Vicenza) wins architectural competition - unanimous decision by the jury The three partners of the Humboldt Forum, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin (ZLB) and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU), are delighted that an outstanding basis ha

Return of Benin bronzes from German museums embedded in broad-based cooperation in the field of museum exchange, new museum construction and archaeology - Memorandum of Understanding signed In addition to the return of artefacts from the historical Kingdom of Benin from German museums to Nigeria, mo

The range of colonial goods is as diverse as their places of origin. The spring issue of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte traces the ups and downs of their history to the present day. “Colonial goods have it all,” write the editors Ulrike Gleixner, Alexandra Kemmerer, Michael Matthiesen, together