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  1. Ngonnso’: Foundation Board clears the way for the return to Cameroon (27.06.2022)

    At its meeting today, the Foundation Board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation authorized SPK’s president Hermann Parzinger to conclude an agreement with the relevant authorities in Cameroon on the return of the so-called Ngonnso'. The female figure known as Ngonnso' originates from the his

  2. Postscript to the International Conference on Syria: Why Ruins Can Help People (30.06.2016)

    Palmyra has been freed, but the civil war continues – and with it the threat to Syria's cultural heritage. To discuss its protection, UNESCO convened a conference of experts in Berlin early in June 2016. For Zoya Masoud, this was the perfect place to talk about humanitarian aid. June 8, 2016 Zoya Ma

  3. Sponsoring

    Sponsoring SPK's sponsoring and fundraising activities are coordinated, documented and implemented Foundation-wide in consultation with the institutions. Frauke Probst Fundraising +49 030 266 412503 Email Links for Additional Information Support Contact for General Enquiries If you have a general qu

  4. Built and Unbuilt Utopias (17.08.2021)

    Bohemians and ambassadors, Germania megalomania, modernist architectural icons: the Kulturforum as a utopia is the subject of joint exhibitions and events by the SPK, Stiftung St. Matthäus, and the Berliner Philharmoniker. Berlin's Kulturforum is a built utopia. But while it does bring together some

  5. Tribute to Furniture Designer Erich Dieckmann in Halle and Berlin (12.05.2021)

    SPK and SMB to partner the state of Saxony-Anhalt: retrospective on Bauhaus designer Erich Dieckmann to open in spring 2022, produced by the Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstbibliothek of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in collaboration with the Art Foundation of Saxony-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein Uni

  6. Report on the international conference “Kulturgut in Gefahr: Raubgrabungen und illegaler Handel“ (26.05.2015)

    On 11 and 12 December 2014, experts in the fields of politics, science and practical implementation discussed measures to protect cultural assets with around 300 participants. The international conference in the Weltsaal of the Federal Foreign Office concluded with an urgent appeal to clamp down on

  7. DFG funding survey: SPK raises 21.5 million euros (06.10.2021)

    The figures published in the DFG's latest survey of funding highlight the importance of the SPK for Germany as a center of research. The Förderatlas 2021, published by the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) (DFG), collates the key figures for the public funding of research

  8. “The cross-divisional structure should be regarded as an opportunity” (20.08.2020)

    Division of the SPK into three independent parts fails to gain majority support. The Advisory Board gives its opinion on the Science Council’s evaluation paper. On August 17, the Advisory Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) considered the recommend

  9. Restitution: SPK returns books to Le Figaro (11.03.2022)

    Books confiscated during World War II returned from the Staatsbibliothek to the French daily newspaper Le Figaro by the SPK On March 10, 2022, the Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library), Achim Bonte, returned 33 books to representatives of the French newspaper Le F

  10. Restitution of Nazi-looted art: SPK returns Pissarro painting (18.10.2021)

    Une Place à la Roche-Guyon by Camille Pissarro is returned to the Dorville heirs and purchased for the Alte Nationalgalerie The SPK has returned Une Place à la Roche-Guyon by Camille Pissarro to the heirs of Armand Dorville and bought it back from them for the Alte Nationalgalerie. Today, the repres