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  1. The people behind the files (30.03.2026)

    The project ‘Art, Looting and Restitution – Forgotten Life Stories’ commemorates Jewish people who once greatly enriched the culture of this country and then fell victim to Nazi terror

  2. SPK returns antique vases to Italy and receives long-term loans (13.06.2024)

    Closing date: 13.06.2024, 2.30 pm SPK restitutes 25 objects from the Collection of Classical Antiquities with dubious provenance to Italy - Contract signed with Minister of State for Culture Roth and Italian Minister of Culture Sangiuliano in Berlin - Parzinger: Restitution agreement intensifies coo

  3. Welfenschatz: SPK once again agrees to proceedings before the Advisory Commission (03.03.2025)

    SPK agrees to proceedings before Advisory Commission despite unresolved issues - goal must be a solution for all potential beneficiaries The Guelph Treasure has been the subject of various restitution claims since 2008. In 2014, following a thorough examination, the Advisory Commission recommended t

  4. Results of provenance research on skulls from German East Africa published (18.01.2023)

    Parzinger: We are ready for immediate return and are waiting for signals from the countries of origin In a project launched in 2017, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin) worked with scientis

  5. SPK researches the origin of human remains from East Africa - Gerda Henkel Foundation supports the project (02.08.2017)

    As part of a pilot project, the SPK will be researching the provenance of around a thousand human skulls from the former colony of German East Africa from the beginning of October. The project is based at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin and is funded by t

  6. Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation recovers valuable artefacts that belong in the Gothic House (25.05.2018)

    In Wörlitz, SPK President Hermann Parzinger hands over 21 objects that were in the possession of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin's Museum of Decorative Arts as external property The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has returned 21 artefacts to the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation that were pr

  7. "Postponed heritage? Colonialism Yesterday and Today": 4th International Symposium of the Goethe-Institut and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin (22.11.2018)

    While the restitution of cultural objects is at the centre of the debate in Europe, completely different questions arise in their places of origin, which have to do with the friction between a global economy and regionally specific conditions, which in turn can be traced back to the colonial past. T

  8. SPK takes part in the #WeRemember campaign to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January (26.01.2024)

    The motifs are places or objects from Jewish collectors that play a role in the project "Art, Looting and Restitution - Forgotten Life Stories" The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its President Hermann Parzinger are taking part in the #WeRemember campaign organised by the World Jewish Cong

  9. SPK Annual Report 2023 published: Focus on NS art theft (05.07.2024)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's institutions counted almost 4.5 million visitors in 2023. This success, which builds on the pre-corona period and is a great vote of confidence, is highlighted in the Annual Report 2023, which was published recently. He also looks at the important events -

  10. US proceedings concerning the Guelph Treasure: Court of Appeal has ruled on the admissibility of the lawsuit against SPK and the Federal Republic of Germany (10.07.2018)

    The lawsuit against the SPK for the return of the Guelph Treasure was allowed by the U.S. Court of Appeals, but dismissed against the Federal Republic of Germany. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will now examine further options. In February 2015, a lawsuit for the return of the Guelph Trea