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On February 12, 2018, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, talked to the Tagesspiegel about the Humboldt Forum, ways of dealing with objects from the colonial era, and provenance research. The Humboldt Forum is due to open at the end of 2019. It will enable the col

Researching and Documenting Provenance The goal of provenance research is to clarify the origins of objects. It is a cross-disciplinary task for all the Foundation’s institutions. In several research projects, determining provenance is the sole task. The Spectrum of Tasks in Provenance Research Prov

2017 is fully dedicated to the Reformation. The world is celebrating this historical event 500 years after Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of a church in Wittenberg and initiated one of the greatest religious upheavals in the history of humankind. The museums of the SPK are participat

Contact and Directions Villa von der Heydt is the seat of the President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. The Central Service Unit (ZSE) supports the President in her duties. The President Since 2008, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz has been headed by its current President, Prof. Dr.

The SPK has returned nine works of art to the heirs of the Jewish businessman and collector Eugen Moritz Buchthal. It has repurchased an etching by E. L. Kirchner for the Kupferstichkabinett. Lawyer Lothar Fremy, who represents the heirs, said: "The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultu

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

Goethe-Institut In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut, the Foundation implements cultural and educational projects. The goal of this collaboration is to help make the Foundation’s collections more visible internationally. Staged reading of Lessing’s The Jews as first part of the Goethe-Institut’s

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

Anyone who is objectively involved with the work of museums in Germany knows that they go to great effort to disclose their holdings and create transparency. For the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK), the debate on the object biographies in African colle

Museum of 20th Century The Kulturforum is getting a new building: a museum of twentieth-century art. Along with the "Mies building", it will enable the Nationalgalerie to show its major collection of twentieth-century art in a coherent form at last. An architectural model of the Kulturforum shows th