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  1. Facilitate, connect, inspire (26.03.2026)

    Hermann Parzinger is leaving the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, with Marion Ackermann taking over: at the annual reception at the James Simon Gallery, both spoke about the institution’s tradition and its future

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. After jury decision on the Museum of the 20th Century: Collector couple Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch declare reservations about donation to the state of Berlin cancelled (30.11.2016)

    Parzinger: Day of joy and appreciation for the Nationalgalerie / Celebration with Minister of State for Culture Grütters and Governing Mayor Müller at the Villa von der Heydt Now that it has been decided who will build the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum, the collector couple Ulla

  5. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation receives the Innovation Award of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry for the Museum Island (17.11.2009)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, accepted the 2009 Innovation Award from Klaus Laepple, President of the Federal Association of the German Tourism Industry, at the Tourism Summit yesterday evening. The Foundation received the award for its highly publicised

  6. Annual press conference 2015 (28.01.2015)

    At its annual press conference today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its plans for the coming year. Together with the directors of the five institutions, Hermann Parzinger took stock of 2014 and provided information on new projects, developments and exhibitions.

  7. New funding agreement signed for the SPK at the Bode Museum by the federal and state governments (12.03.2025)

    Roth: Clear commitment from the federal and state governments / Parzinger: Great day for the Foundation - money will flow into quality improvements in the centres Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and the heads of government of the federal states signed the new financing agreement for the Prussian Cult

  8. Research Questions: Inside the kurgans (26.03.2026)

    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

  9. The bust of Nefertiti (24.01.2011)

    Recently, Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of the Republic of Egypt, sent a letter to Prof Dr Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, requesting the return of the bust of Nefertiti. The letter is not signed by the Prime Minist

  10. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation welcomes the German-Iraqi initiative to save Iraq's cultural heritage and the initiative to amend the law on the protection of cultural property (22.04.2015)

    Yesterday, Tuesday, representatives of Germany and Iraq presented a joint initiative in New York that opposes the destruction of Iraq's cultural heritage. In the next few days, the two countries will submit a draft resolution to the UN. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage