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  1. The return of the Benin bronzes begins (16.12.2022)

    Ten Benin objects from the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage will be physically restituted to Nigeria in a few days. They are among the 514 Benin objects for which the SPK already transferred ownership to Nigeria in the summer. On 25 August 2022, Herm

  2. The Castle of the World (30.03.2026)

    SPK President Hermann Parzinger: Our museums at the Humboldt Forum are engaging with the world; this requires openness, courage and determination to ensure these debates are productive

  3. The Castle of the World (30.03.2026)

    SPK President Hermann Parzinger: Our museums at the Humboldt Forum are engaging with the world; this requires openness, courage and determination to ensure these debates are productive

  4. New museum honoured with European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage (16.04.2010)

    The prestigious "Europa Nostra Award", which recognises outstanding achievements in the field of restoration, research and education, will be presented to the Neues Museum this year. The building on Berlin's Museum Island has been restored according to plans by David Chipperfield Architects and Juli

  5. Between Dialectics and Confucius (26.03.2026)

    Gero Dimter on Hermann Parzinger: Openness, goodwill and freedom of action characterised the collaboration with the SPK President – particularly during difficult times.

  6. Between Dialectics and Confucius (26.03.2026)

    Gero Dimter on Hermann Parzinger: Openness, goodwill and freedom of action characterised the collaboration with the SPK President – particularly during difficult times.

  7. Deutsche Post's "Nefertiti" and "Ishtar Gate" special stamps to be presented at the Neues Museum today (28.01.2013)

    The two special postage stamps "Nefertiti" and "Ishtar Gate" were issued at the beginning of the year as part of Deutsche Post's "Treasures from German museums" series. They show two outstanding archaeological objects from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection and the Museum of the Ancient Near

  8. ZDF and 3sat as partners for culture (23.11.2023)

    SPK and ZDF extend media partnership until the end of 2024 The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) is continuing its successful media partnership with ZDF. ZDF Programme Director Nadine Bilke and SPK President Hermann Parzinger today signed the extension of the cooperation until the end of 2

  9. Newly published: Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage reports on the work of the Foundation and looks to the future (23.12.2008)

    The 44th volume of the yearbook reports on outstanding events and developments in 2007, including the ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation's founding, with a speech by Federal President Horst Köhler. This volume also contains the speeches on the occasion of the change in the o

  10. Sign against cultural destruction: SPK hands over clay brick fragment to Iraq (28.10.2015)

    Foundation President Hermann Parzinger and Markus Hilgert, Director of the Museum of the Museum of the Ancient Near East, hand over 2600 year old inscription to the Iraqi ambassador Photo opportunity: 2 November 2015, 10 a.m., at the Archaeological Centre In view of the systematic destruction of cul