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  1. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation receives the estate of Leni Riefenstahl (12.02.2018)

    Heiress donates extensive photographic and film holdings, manuscripts, letters, files and documents - Art Library and State Library will process the estate - Cooperation with the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek planned - Parzinger: "This estate demands special responsibility from the SPK The Prussian C

  2. Parzinger: Using the European Year of Cultural Heritage for a new start (08.01.2018)

    The European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 in Germany opens today in Hamburg City Hall Europe's shared cultural heritage will take centre stage in 2018 under the motto "Sharing Heritage". The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is inviting European partner organisations to a summit meeting in Jun

  3. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes works from the Buchthal Collection (15.08.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is returning nine works from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to the heirs of the Jewish entrepreneur and collector Eugen Moritz Buchthal. One of them, the etching "Fehmarnhäuser mit großem Baum" (1908) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, is

  4. Almost 100,000 euros in funding for the preservation of written cultural heritage at the SPK (14.08.2017)

    "East Prussian folios" and "Schriftkunst" receive protection The Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage will receive funding of 50,000 euros to protect the "East Prussian Folios" from the "Special Programme 2017 for the Preservation of the Written Cultural Heritage" of Minister of State

  5. Parzinger on the Cultural Property Protection Act: Illegal trade no longer a trivial offence (02.08.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation sees positive developments following the amendment to the Cultural Property Protection Act, which came into force a year ago. The new law was the first to ban the import of antiquities without an official export licence from the country of origin, something

  6. Parzinger on the corona crisis: All institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will suspend their public operations from Saturday (14 March 2020) until further notice (12.03.2020)

    The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, explains the corona crisis: "The spread of the corona virus has also had a profound impact on Berlin's cultural life. The warnings of the medical profession to ensure that social contacts are reduced to an absolute minimu

  7. How do you actually build for the cultural audience of tomorrow? (07.11.2019)

    Architecture summit on the "Blue Sofa": Sir David Chipperfield, Jacques Herzog, Regine Leibinger, HG Merz and Franco Stella in conversation with Vivian Perkovic - On 19 November 2019 from 7 pm in the new James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin's Museum Island - TV broadcast on 19 November 2019 from 11:10 pm o

  8. Statement by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation on the "Open Letter: We demand free access to museum inventories of African artefacts in Germany!" (17.10.2019)

    Anyone who takes an unbiased look at the work of museums in Germany knows that they go to great lengths to disclose their collections and create transparency. The debate about object biographies of African collections is not a new topic for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. On the contrary:

  9. Thorsten Strauß remains at the helm of the Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage: Representatives of German business accompany the transformation of the SPK (12.06.2020)

    Thorsten Strauß, representative of Deutsche Bank AG on the Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage and Managing Director of Thor Advisors GmbH, will continue to head the Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage for another year. He was unanimously confirmed as Chairman at the end of M

  10. Art without context? Annual Report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation 2019 published (04.06.2020)

    What was the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation up to in 2019? From "Mantegna and Bellini" to Alexander von Humboldt's 250th birthday and the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Nationalgalerie building at the Kulturforum to over four million museum visits. The recently published annual report p