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The keys to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in the building on Unter den Linden were turned over on November 4 after a renovation suitable for listed buildings. The ceremony marked the end of the complete renovation and expansion of the complex of listed buildings, which is more than 100 years old an

Berliner Antike-Kolleg Berlin was once and is now again a center for studies of antiquity. The Antike-Kolleg takes up this tradition. Specialists in nearly every region and period of the cultures of the ancient world do their research here. The Berliner Antike-Kolleg (Berlin College of Ancient Studi

Provenance Research and Issues of Ownership The Foundation thoroughly investigates the provenance – that is, the origins – of the objects in its collections. This includes scholarly questions as well as clarifying questions of ownership. Questions of ownership can be clarified using the results of p

Conducting provenance research on ethnological collections is often more difficult than research on Nazi-confiscated art, the president of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Hermann Parzinger, said in an interview with Maria Ossowski of Deutschlandfunk. But, he pointed out, the Humboldt-Forum w

A recent resolution of the UN Security Council has affirmed that the protection of cultural heritage is not just a cultural issue, but also a security problem. Markus Hilgert, director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, talks about the challenges this presents to the

European Cultural Heritage Year 2018 (ECHY) aims to increase the awareness and visibility of culture as a unifying element in Europe. On December 19, 2016, the project's five ambassadors presented it to the public. One of them was Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesit

Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (German Digital Library) The Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek gives its users access to Germany’s cultural and intellectual heritage and encompasses books, music, works of art, films, photographs, documents, manuscripts and much more. Panorama Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek Th

Hermann Parzinger on the results of the “20 Years of Washington Principles: Roadmap for the Future” international specialist conference Together with the German Lost Art Foundation and Kulturstiftung der Länder, the cultural foundation of the German states, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussi

The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Bayerische Staatsgemä-ldesammlungen, together with broadcasters rbb and BR, commemo-rate the victims of Nazi plunder – joint project tells forgotten life sto-ries of Jewish people based on cases of restitution – launch event in the Bode Museum – Minister

In June 2016, the Foundation returned 384 books to a Masonic lodge. The SPK has previously returned other works to these “forgotten victims” of National Socialism Speaking at the handover ceremony, Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, pointed out that: “It was not only Jews that were persecuted,