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SPK and SMB to partner the state of Saxony-Anhalt: retrospective on Bauhaus designer Erich Dieckmann to open in spring 2022, produced by the Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstbibliothek of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in collaboration with the Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein Uni

On February 11, 2022, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) will hand over 32 ancestral remains to a representative of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). The ancestral remains have been in the keeping of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since 2011. A

Lending will be possible again in the SPK libraries from 4 May, reading rooms will remain closed. The museums are preparing to open individual houses. The SPK museums, libraries and archives have been closed since 14 March 2020. With the current relaxation of the containment measures by the State of

The Competence Network of the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek offers comprehensive access to digitized cultural heritage in Germany. It is supported by a competence network of important cultural and scientific institutions in all fields. The competence network directs t

Gerhard Richter is making an important selection of 100 works available for the Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts (Museum of the 20th Century), which forms part of the Nationalgalerie. Works by the artist will be on display in the Neue Nationalgalerie from 2023 onward, and after that in the new building a

The SPK, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Nationalgalerie mourn the loss of the great collector, who died yesterday at the age of 99 The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin) mourn the loss o

Strategy for joint action of ethnological museums to be developed - return of objects is an option At its meeting on March 24, 2021, the Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) considered, among other matters, the treatment of objects with colonial con

The "Benin bronzes" officially belong to Nigeria again. About a third of the transferred objects will remain on loan in Berlin and will be exhibited in the Humboldt Forum. On 25 august 2022, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director Ge

ICOM has updated its Emergency Red List of Iraqi Cultural Objects at Risk. On January 14, 2016, the German version will be presented at the Archäologisches Zentrum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Illegal excavations and looting threaten cultural heritage across the globe. This has reached dramat

In the Humboldt Forum Magazine, curators and exhibition designers introduce their concepts for the presentation of the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art in the rebuilt Berlin Palace. The magazine also contains essays on the impact of colonialism on present day identi