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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

On 15 October 2013, the exhibition "Bronze Age - Europe without Borders" will open at the State Historical Museum in Moscow. The exhibition, which was previously shown in St. Petersburg and opened there by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Vladimir Putin, is a joint project of the Hermit

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe are working together to clarify the provenance of Oskar Kokoschka's painting "Pariser Platz in Berlin". The Commission represents the family of Anna Caspari, a respected art dealer in Munich, who was deported from

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

SPK President Parzinger regrets cancellation - We will soon present a new collection director Inés de Castro, Director of the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, will not become Director of the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin in the Humboldt

Parzinger: Federal Government significantly strengthens the SPK - thanks to Claudia Roth The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will be significantly strengthened in the 2025 federal budget. SPK President Hermann Parzinger thanked Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth and her organisation: "

Memorandum of Understanding signed: return of Benin bronzes from German museums embedded in broad-based cooperation in the areas of museum practice, new museum construction, and archaeology In addition to German museums returning objects from the historic Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria, collaboration b

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

Parzinger: Iran still not granting export licence for artworks - SPK committed to cultural dialogue The planned exhibition "The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin" at the Berlin Gemäldegalerie will now not be able to take place as planned. As the President of the Prus

From July 2015, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will publish a monthly newsletter. Subscribers receive the best overview of what is happening at the Foundation and the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library, the Ibero-American Institute, the State Institute for Music Research