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  1. Modern and user-friendly: the Geheimes Staatsarchiv has a completely new website (12.05.2020)

    Service and user-friendliness lie at the focus of the fully redesigned website of the Geheimes Staatsarchiv. The new website demonstrates that the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Privy State Archives) is a modern facility with a commitment to service. The website has been c

  2. Berliner Antike-Kolleg

    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

  3. Guelph Treasure Art Restitution Lawsuit: SPK Appeals U.S. District Court Decision (21.04.2017)

    The U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has recently decided on the admissibility of a lawsuit seeking restitution of the "Guelph Treasure". SPK appeals the decision. The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, or SPK) and the Federal Republic of Germany were n

  4. Restitution of Fritz Huf’s Sculpture by the SPK (28.03.2022)

    The sculpture "Ruhende Frau", by Fritz Huf, was restored to the heir of Hans (Jean) Fürstenberg and then purchased by the SPSG for the park at Schloss Schönhausen. On April 5, 2022, the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz (National Museums in Berlin) will t

  5. Return of human remains to Hawai'i (07.02.2022)

    On February 11, 2022, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) will hand over 32 ancestral remains to a representative of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). The ancestral remains have been in the keeping of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since 2011. A

  6. Report Barrier

    Report Barrier Have you noticed any deficiencies in the accessibility of the content on this website? Or do you have questions on the subject of accessibility? Then you are welcome to contact us: Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Von-der-Heydt-Strasse 16-18 10785 Berlin Germany Tel.: +49 (0)30 266 4

  7. Restrictions due to maintenance work (28.05.2024)

    June 5 to 9, 2024: Due to maintenance work, the IT accessibility of the SPK is severely restricted, individual areas of the facilities will remain closed during this time From Wednesday, June 5, up to and including Sunday, June 9, 2024, some websites of the SPK and its institutions will be unavailab

  8. Hermann Parzinger on Today's Meeting Regarding the Future of Benin Bronzes (29.04.2021)

    It was a historic encounter: today, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the directors of the German museums in the Benin Dialogue Group, the cultural affairs ministers of the Länder, and representatives of the German Foreign Office agreed on a joint statement concerning th

  9. 514 Berlin Benin bronzes return to Nigerian ownership (25.08.2022)

    The "Benin bronzes" officially belong to Nigeria again. About a third of the transferred objects will remain on loan in Berlin and will be exhibited in the Humboldt Forum. On 25 august 2022, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director Ge

  10. Bode Museum Coin Robbery: Parzinger Thanks the Berlin Police Force (17.07.2017)

    SPK President hopes for „further progress towards solving the case“ of the Big Maple Leaf The President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Foundation), Hermann Parzinger, has thanked the Berlin police force for its „excellent detective work into the burglary at the Bode Mus