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  1. SPK Magazine issue on the Kulturforum (30.06.2021)

    The "Temple and Barn" issue explores the ensemble of buildings for art, literature, music, and science and asks what they have to offer. Berlin's cultural forum in the Tiergarten district, near Potsdamer Platz, is going to become livelier and acquire new qualities. That's the unanimous wish of the i

  2. SPK Magazine 1/2021: Temple and Barn

    SPK Magazine 1/2021: Temple and Barn The Kulturforum: a place where architecture, art, music, science, and literature come together. The new issue takes you on a tour of this unique cultural landscape, past the newly renovated Neue Nationalgalerie and the busy building site where the Museum des 20.

  3. SPK reform commission: more individual responsibility for the institutions (11.03.2021)

    At its meeting yesterday, the reform commission of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) dealt in detail with the situations at three of its institutions. The commission's deliberations on the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (SBB – Berlin State Library), the Ibero

  4. Foundation Board Decides on Concrete Steps for SPK Reform (29.06.2021)

    Today, the SPK Foundation Board adopted a framework for the structural reform of the Foundation based on the recommendations of the SPK Reform Commission. The museums, libraries, archives and research institutions of the SPK will be granted significantly more autonomy. At the same time, they will pu

  5. SPK Foundation Board appoints new director of the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin (30.06.2021)

    On June 29, 2021, the Board of Trustees of the SPK filled an important management position at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. As the successor of Michael Eissenhauer as director of the Gemäldegalerie (Old Master Paintings), they selected Dr. Dagmar Hirschfelder, who currently heads the paintings an

  6. SPK Foundation Board: Benin Bronzes Return to Nigeria (29.06.2021)

    Foundation Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz authorized SPK President Hermann Parzinger to return Benin Bronzes to Nigeria In its meeting today, the Foundation Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) authorized SPK President Hermann Parzi

  7. SPK Foundation Board Clears the Way for the Return of Benin Bronzes to Nigeria (29.06.2021)

    In its meeting today, the Foundation Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) authorized SPK President Hermann Parzinger "to conduct, in the framework of the joint negotiations of the Federal Republic of Germany with the relevant authorities in Nigeria,

  8. SPK Foundation Board on dealing with the Benin bronzes (24.03.2021)

    Strategy for joint action of ethnological museums to be developed - return of objects is an option At its meeting on March 24, 2021, the Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) considered, among other matters, the treatment of objects with colonial con

  9. Board of the SPK on dealing with the Benin bronzes (24.03.2021)

    At its meeting on March 24, 2021, the Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) considered, among other matters, the treatment of objects with colonial contexts in the collections. This included the issue of the Benin bronzes. The Foundation Board welcom

  10. Welfenschatz: U.S. Supreme Court Rules in Favor of SPK (04.02.2021)

    On February 3, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled unanimously in favor of SPK in the Guelph Treasure Restitution Lawsuit. The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) thus reversed the decisions of the lower courts. At the same time, it remanded the case to the U.S. District Court for the District of Co