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  1. Repatriation of human remains to Australia (11.09.2020)

    SPK will return human bones in a bark coffin and two mummified children’s bodies currently kept in the Ethnologisches Museum to Australia. Since 2011, Australia has followed a policy that supports Indigenous Australians in recovering and returning their ancestral remains from abroad. In February 202

  2. Royal Visit from Cameroon in Humboldt Forum (23.11.2022)

    King of the Cameroonian Nso' people saw the Ngonnso' statue at the Humboldt Forum for the first time on November 12, 2022. It was a long-awaited, a well-nigh historic trip for Fon Sehm Mbinglo I. On Saturday, November 12, for the first time since he ascended the throne more than 30 years ago, the ki

  3. Human Remains from the Ethnological Museum will be returned to New Zealand (02.09.2020)

    SPK will return two mummified heads (Toi moko) of tattooed Māori men from the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum to New Zealand. In 2003, the government of New Zealand mandated that the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa repatriate Māori human remains to New Zealand. Hermann Parzinger, Pr

  4. Changes on the Prussian Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees (18.05.2021)

    New board chairperson: Helen Müller replaces Thorsten Strauß Thorsten Strauß, who has been active on the Prussian Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees for thirteen years and has served as its chairperson since 2014, is stepping down. He is leaving Deutsche Bank, which he represented on the board, to

  5. Future of Hamburger Bahnhof Secured (27.06.2022)

    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

  6. Conference on the reassessment of colonial history (17.11.2021)

    In cooperation with the SPK and the Research Center for Material Culture of the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures, the German Lost Art Foundation is holding a digital conference on cultural assets from colonial contexts. The debate about returning cultural assets to former colonial areas is hi

  7. Return heralds collaboration between Luther Memorials and Staatsbibliothek (18.01.2022)

    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,

  8. Ngonnso’: Foundation Board clears the way for the return to Cameroon (27.06.2022)

    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

  9. Datenschutzerklärung gem. Art. 13 DSGVO für Bewerber*innen

    Datenschutzerklärung gem. Art. 13 DSGVO für Bewerber*innen Die Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) legt großen Wert auf den Schutz Ihrer Daten und die Wahrung Ihrer Privatsphäre. Um zu gewährleisten, dass Sie in vollem Umfang über die Erhebung, Verarbeitung und Nutzung personenbezogener Daten im

  10. New director of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin (30.06.2021)

    SPK Foundation Board appoints Dagmar Hirschfelder as the successor of Michael Eissenhauer as director of the Gemäldegalerie SPK Foundation Board decided on June 29, 2021: Dr. Dagmar Hirschfelder, who currently heads the paintings and graphics department of the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg, wi