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Protection of Cultural Heritage The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz protects the cultural property in its possession in various special ways. It is also actively involved in many projects and partnerships for the protection of cultural heritage worldwide. All around the world, cultural property i

Ethnological Museum returns grave goods to indigenous peoples from Southwestern Alaska and plans further co-operation with Chugach Alaska Corporation. On May 16, Hermann Parzinger, president of Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural heritage Foundation), handed over nine objects f

The new Bauakademie will be an example of sustainability in architecture The reconstructed version of Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s former Bauakademie (Building Academy) in the historical center of Berlin will be “an outstanding example of architectural innovation and environmental, economic and social

It is with deep sorrow that the SPK announces the death of its former Vice President at the age of 89. Peter Hofmann, former Vice President of the SPK, died in Berlin at the end of August. He was 89 years old. Hofmann worked for the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foun

The figures published in the DFG's latest survey of funding highlight the importance of the SPK for Germany as a center of research. The Förderatlas 2021, published by the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) (DFG), collates the key figures for the public funding of research

The SPK has recently returned a friendship album to the Luther Memorials Foundation. It dates from the Reformation era and contains an entry by Philipp Melanchthon. It will become part of the permanent exhibition at the Lutherhaus in Wittenberg, from where it was stolen in 1976. Until it was stolen,

Foundation Board approves lease, but purchase of the property remains long-term goal The German federal government and the real estate company CA Immo Deutschland GmbH have taken the first step toward securing Hamburger Bahnhof’s continued future as a center of arts and culture. They have agreed tha

Exactly ten years ago, on 12 August 2005, the bust of Nefertiti returned to the Museumsinsel (Museum Island) after decades spent in several other places in Berlin and the rest of Germany. Today the likeness of the pharaoh’s “Great Royal Wife” attracts thousands of visitors to the Neues Museum each y

23 objects of the Ethnological Museum are to remain permanently in Namibia - agreement on returns to Tanzania also possible 23 objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin can remain permanently in Namibia. The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural He

At its meeting today, the Foundation Board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation authorized SPK’s president Hermann Parzinger to conclude an agreement with the relevant authorities in Cameroon on the return of the so-called Ngonnso'. The female figure known as Ngonnso' originates from the his