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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

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

A ceremony was held today at the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to prepare the mummified heads (Toi moko) of two tattooed Māori heads for their repatriation to New Zealand. Two toi moko from the Ethnological Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin return to New Zealand. T

On June 29, 2021, the Board of Trustees of the SPK filled an important management position at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. As the successor of Michael Eissenhauer as director of the Gemäldegalerie (Old Master Paintings), they selected Dr. Dagmar Hirschfelder, who currently heads the paintings an

The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has recently decided on the admissibility of a lawsuit seeking restitution of the "Guelph Treasure". SPK appeals the decision. The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, or SPK) and the Federal Republic of Germany were n