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  1. Shared Heritage: Craftsmen from Palau and Fiji at the Humboldt Forum (16.08.2022)

    Starting in September, the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will be showcasing masterpieces of Oceanic architecture and boat building in its exhibition spaces at the Humboldt Forum. Craftsmen from Palau and the Fiji Islands were recently in Berlin to work on a traditional mee

  2. Benin Bronzes: talks with the Nigerian delegation in Berlin (08.07.2021)

    On July 7, the guests toured the Humboldt Forum and on the next day they visited the storage facility in Dahlem containing objects from Benin. On a visit to Berlin, the Nigerian partners and Sir David Adjaye, the architect of the Edo State Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) being built in Benin Cit

  3. Planting event with artist Ben Wagin (19.04.2021)

    The Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Berlin-based performance artist Ben Wagin commemorate an art intervention from 1976 with the planting of three trees in the outdoor space of the Neue Nationalgalerie. In 1976, performance artist Ben Wagin planted two black pines at the Neue

  4. Information on prevention measures for COVID-19 in SPK (10.03.2020)

    SPK is closely observing current developments concerning COVID-19 and has set up a crisis team for this purpose. Details on the handling in the individual museums, libraries and archives of SPK can be found on their websites. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is closely monitoring the dynami

  5. Stricter protective measures on SPK premises (06.12.2021)

    To combat the COVID pandemic, stricter protective measures have been introduced on SPK premises: 2G, FFP2 mask and (in some cases) prior registration Staatliche Museen zu Berlin 2G for the museums : entry to the museums (incl. participation in guided tours, workshops and other events inside the muse

  6. Nazi-Looted Art: Nursing Madonna Statuette Restituted (24.01.2023)

    The SPK has returned a 16th-century sculpture of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Jesus to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt. On January 20, the SPK returned a 16th-century statuette of a nursing Madonna to the heirs of the Jewish banker and businessman Jakob Goldschmidt. The work was acquired in 193

  7. Provenance Research Project regarding Mosse Collection (07.03.2017)

    The „Mosse Art Research Initiative“ (MARI) was presented to the public today. SPK is partner to the project which is an unprecedented initiative in provenance research. The collections of the publisher Rudolf Mosse (1843–1920) contained thousands of pictures, sculptures, art objects, books, and anti

  8. “If you have findings, then you have to act on them.” (12.02.2018)

    On February 12, 2018, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, talked to the Tagesspiegel about the Humboldt Forum, ways of dealing with objects from the colonial era, and provenance research. The Humboldt Forum is due to open at the end of 2019. It will enable the col

  9. Korean Cultural Center in Germany to support Museum für Asiatische Kunst (16.12.2021)

    The Korean Cultural Center in Germany and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz have signed an agreement that includes funding for a curator's position. The focus lies on research into the Korean collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The funds will go to

  10. Repurchase of a Kirchner etching after restitution (16.08.2017)

    The SPK has returned nine works of art to the heirs of the Jewish businessman and collector Eugen Moritz Buchthal. It has repurchased an etching by E. L. Kirchner for the Kupferstichkabinett. Lawyer Lothar Fremy, who represents the heirs, said: "The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultu