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  1. Restrictions on Europe's cultural heritage institutions overcome by EU biocide regulation - SPK achieves national re-legalisation of in-situ-generated nitrogen to combat pest infestations (24.08.2023)

    Insects threaten precious cultural assets worldwide. Since the publication of "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson in 1962, which documented the detrimental effects of pesticide use on the environment, more sustainable pest control technologies have been researched and developed. In recent decades, more

  2. SPK today handed over a statue from the Alte Nationalgalerie to the Centre national des arts plastiques in Paris (16.12.2024)

    The life-size figure "Le Drame Lyrique", also known as the "Violinist", once adorned the foyer of the Opéra Comique. Until 1932, the work by French sculptor Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900) was displayed in the foyer of the third oldest theatre institution in Paris. After being transferred to the Mus

  3. SPK restitutes three Kogi objects (10.02.2025)

    Her Excellency Yadir Salazar Mejía, Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia, and Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, today signed an agreement on the transfer of ownership of three ritual artefacts from the Kogi. They had been on loan to the SPK in Bogota since October 2024. The foundation had a

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  5. Ceremonial event "Loss and Restitution" on 30 October 2008, speech by Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and spokesman for the "German-Russian Museum Dialogue" (30.10.2008)

    - The spoken word prevails - Salutations, In the long shared history of Germany and Russia, the past 20th century was undoubtedly a special one with very dark but also brighter days. There was unimaginable suffering and inconceivable crimes that emanated from German soil and were committed in German

  6. Objects that tell of the famous Silk Road (17.09.2008)

    The academy project "Turfan Research" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Museum of Asian Art - SMB (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) are partners in the EU project 'IDP-CREA The International Dunhuang Project - Cultural Routes of Eurasia Berlin, 17 September 2

  7. Vidya Shah Emotion - Music - Emotion: Feeling Music. Classical Indian singing at the Bode Museum (06.10.2008)

    An event "On the way to the Humboldt Forum" Concert on 10 October 2008, 7 pm Venue: Basilica of the Bode Museum, Museum Island Berlin Admission free Organiser: Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Greetings: Hermann Parzinger , President of the Prussia

  8. ILLICID project investigates illegal trade in cultural property in Germany (10.04.2015)

    The kick-off meeting for the ILLICID research project took place today at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin with international participation. Over the next three years, ILLICID will use dark field research to gather information on the illegal trade in cultural artefacts in Germany.

  9. Summary of the conference "20 years of the Washington Principles: Paths to the Future" (28.11.2018)

    An international conference from 26 to 28 November 2018 in Berlin will be dedicated to the implementation of the Washington Principles on the Handling of Nazi-looted Property since their adoption in 1998. Around 800 participants, including leading experts, organisations, Holocaust survivors and thei

  10. Museums and exhibition centres on course for consolidation: visitors are back (19.12.2023)

    Institute for Museum Research publishes visitor figures for museums and exhibition centres in Germany in 2022: 81.4 million visits - around twice as many as in the previous year The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 81,372,077 visits in 2022. This is around twice as many as in