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  1. Berlin Egyptian Museum becomes project partner in the establishment of the Akhenaten Museum near Amarna (19.11.2019)

    Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin committed to establishing the Akhenaten Museum in el-Minja - Parzinger signs corresponding memorandum and welcomes support from the Federal Government's Museum Agency Since 2002, the Akhenaten Museum (Akhenaten Museum) has been

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Goethe-Institut cooperate nationally and internationally (22.04.2009)

    The Secretary General of the Goethe-Institut Hans-Georg Knopp and the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger signed a cooperation agreement in Berlin on 22 April 2009. The close cooperation between Germany's largest intermediary organisation for foreign cultural wor

  3. Atlas returned to the Berlin State Library after being lost during the war (12.02.2010)

    A few days ago, the Berlin State Library received back an atlas from the 17th century that had recently been found in the archives of the French Foreign Ministry. The head of the archive, Jean Mendelson, presented the work to the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzin

  4. 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

  5. "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

  6. Reopening of the State Library (08.12.2020)

    From 1 February 2021, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will welcome its users to the splendidly renovated building on Unter den Linden - opening ceremony on 25 January with a speech by Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble Completely renovated and modernised, equipped with a general and six reading ro

  7. SPK takes part in the #WeRemember campaign to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day on 27 January (26.01.2024)

    The motifs are places or objects from Jewish collectors that play a role in the project "Art, Looting and Restitution - Forgotten Life Stories" The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its President Hermann Parzinger are taking part in the #WeRemember campaign organised by the World Jewish Cong

  8. SPK restitutes three Kogi objects (10.02.2025)

    Her Excellency Yadir Salazar Mejía, Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia, and Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, today signed an agreement on the transfer of ownership of three ritual artefacts from the Kogi. They had been on loan to the SPK in Bogota since October 2024. The foundation had a

  9. European Cultural Heritage Summit Agrees on Berlin Call to Action (22.06.2018)

    Europa Nostra, the German Cultural Heritage Committee and the SPK call for better use of cultural heritage potential – summit in Berlin with more than 70 events and 1500 guests The European Cultural Heritage Summit has agreed on a Berlin Call to Action: Europa Nostra, German Cultural Heritage Commit

  10. Berlin conference on dealing with cultural property confiscated as a result of Nazi persecution successfully concluded (12.12.2008)

    After two days of intense discussion, the symposium "Verantwortung wahrnehmen / Taking responsibility", organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property to mark the tenth anniversary of the "Washington Principles" and sponsored by t