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  1. Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation recovers valuable artefacts that belong in the Gothic House (25.05.2018)

    In Wörlitz, SPK President Hermann Parzinger hands over 21 objects that were in the possession of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin's Museum of Decorative Arts as external property The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has returned 21 artefacts to the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation that were pr

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes works from the Buchthal Collection (15.08.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is returning nine works from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to the heirs of the Jewish entrepreneur and collector Eugen Moritz Buchthal. One of them, the etching "Fehmarnhäuser mit großem Baum" (1908) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, is

  3. Almost 100,000 euros in funding for the preservation of written cultural heritage at the SPK (14.08.2017)

    "East Prussian folios" and "Schriftkunst" receive protection The Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage will receive funding of 50,000 euros to protect the "East Prussian Folios" from the "Special Programme 2017 for the Preservation of the Written Cultural Heritage" of Minister of State

  4. Parzinger on the Cultural Property Protection Act: Illegal trade no longer a trivial offence (02.08.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation sees positive developments following the amendment to the Cultural Property Protection Act, which came into force a year ago. The new law was the first to ban the import of antiquities without an official export licence from the country of origin, something

  5. Gero Dimter appointed new Vice President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (18.12.2018)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is getting a new Vice President. Gero Dimter succeeds Günther Schauerte, who has held the post since 2011 and is now retiring. This was decided by the Board of Trustees, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters. The Prussian Cultural Heritage

  6. Haus Bastian on Berlin's Museum Island is being officially handed over to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today. From the summer, forward-looking educational concepts of the National Museums in Berlin will be developed and trialled there. (12.03.2019)

    During the ceremonial handover of the keys, Foundation President Hermann Parzinger and Director General Michael Eissenhauer thanked Céline, Heiner and Aeneas Bastian for their extraordinarily generous gift. The building on Kupfergraben, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, has been dedicated t

  7. "Postponed heritage? Colonialism Yesterday and Today": 4th International Symposium of the Goethe-Institut and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin (22.11.2018)

    While the restitution of cultural objects is at the centre of the debate in Europe, completely different questions arise in their places of origin, which have to do with the friction between a global economy and regionally specific conditions, which in turn can be traced back to the colonial past. T

  8. New image brochure of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation published (30.01.2019)

    Secrets, conversations and walks through the SPK cosmos - Celebrities such as Bibiana Beglau, Tim Raue and Robin Ticciati guide us through their favourite pieces - Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz supports the publication designed by BUREAU Mario Lombardo The new image brochure "Once around the w

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation receives the estate of Leni Riefenstahl (12.02.2018)

    Heiress donates extensive photographic and film holdings, manuscripts, letters, files and documents - Art Library and State Library will process the estate - Cooperation with the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek planned - Parzinger: "This estate demands special responsibility from the SPK The Prussian C

  10. Parzinger: Using the European Year of Cultural Heritage for a new start (08.01.2018)

    The European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 in Germany opens today in Hamburg City Hall Europe's shared cultural heritage will take centre stage in 2018 under the motto "Sharing Heritage". The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is inviting European partner organisations to a summit meeting in Jun