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  1. 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.

  2. Former Presidents and Vice Presidents

    Former Presidents and Vice Presidents Beginning in 1962, there are four former presidents of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz: Hans-Georg Wormit, Werner Knopp, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann and Hermann Parzinger. There are three former vice presidents: Peter Hofmann, Norbert Zimmermann and Günther Scha

  3. 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

  4. Returns to Namibia and Tanzania: Foundation Board clears the way (27.06.2022)

    23 objects of the Ethnological Museum are to remain permanently in Namibia - agreement on returns to Tanzania also possible 23 objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin can remain permanently in Namibia. The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural He

  5. Symposium „The Future of Collections“ (20.05.2025)

    BY INVITATION ONLY, PUBLIC LIVESTREAM As places for the symposium are strictly limited, please note that invitations can only be issued for named individuals who have registered in advance. A livestream of the symposium can be viewed without prior registration. Click here for online streaming. Date

  6. SPK invites minister presidents to the newly refurbished Neue Nationalgalerie (25.06.2021)

    SPK President Hermann Parzinger took the visit as an opportunity to thank the federal states for their commitment to the work of the Foundation. At the invitation of Governing Mayor of Berlin Michael Müller and President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundatio

  7. Autonomy, personal responsibility and the principle of networking (20.08.2020)

    Foundation Board appoints reform commission to restructure the SPK – roadmap by the end of November On August 19, the Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) gave detailed consideration to the recommendations made by the governmental Science Council as

  8. The spring issue of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte is on the theme of colonial goods (19.02.2021)

    The range of colonial goods is as diverse as their places of origin. The spring issue of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte traces the ups and downs of their history to the present day. “Colonial goods have it all,” write the editors Ulrike Gleixner, Alexandra Kemmerer, Michael Matthiesen, together

  9. “If you have findings, then you have to act on them.” (12.02.2018)

    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

  10. Benin Bronzes: a further important step toward restitution and strengthening cultural cooperation (14.10.2021)

    Memorandum of Understanding signed: return of Benin bronzes from German museums embedded in broad-based cooperation in the areas of museum practice, new museum construction, and archaeology In addition to German museums returning objects from the historic Kingdom of Benin to Nigeria, collaboration b