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SPK will return two mummified heads (Toi moko) of tattooed Māori men from the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum to New Zealand. In 2003, the government of New Zealand mandated that the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa repatriate Māori human remains to New Zealand. Hermann Parzinger, Pr

21.11.2018 „Washington was a Revolution“ Article The architect of the Washington Conference, Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat, on the achievements of the Washington Principles from 1998. How did you first become involved in the issue of Holocaust-era assets? In 1968 I joined Vice President (Hubert) Hu

The exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders. Archaeology and History of the 5th to 8th Centuries" opens today in St Petersburg. St. Petersburg, where it will be on show until 16 August, is the second stop for the exhibition, which was already shown with great success from 13 March to

Forty-four objects of late antique Byzantine everyday culture were recently identified in Leipzig as belonging to the Berlin Museum of Byzantine Art and are now returning to the Bode Museum. The pieces had been transported to the Soviet Union after the end of the Second World War and were mistakenly

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

On July 7, the guests toured the Humboldt Forum and on the next day they visited the storage facility in Dahlem containing objects from Benin. On a visit to Berlin, the Nigerian partners and Sir David Adjaye, the architect of the Edo State Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) being built in Benin Cit

SPK president reacts to media reports that Nigeria’s departing President Buhari has transferred ownership of all objects to Oba Ewuare II, the successor to the kings of Benin. Last December, Foreign Minister Baerbock and the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, returned the

06.11.2017 “The West was not worthy of such works of art“ Article In the case of European-American art, research into the provenance of works most often examines the question of confiscation during persecution by the Nazis. But what is the situation with regard to East Asian collectibles? In 2017, C

Jahrbuch Preussischer Kulturbesitz The Preussischer Kulturbesitz yearbook reports extensively and continuously on the Foundation's work. It records important events, takes a look at subjects relevant to the Foundation, and provides information about major topics of interest in the five institutions.

The „Mosse Art Research Initiative“ (MARI) was presented to the public today. SPK is partner to the project which is an unprecedented initiative in provenance research. The collections of the publisher Rudolf Mosse (1843–1920) contained thousands of pictures, sculptures, art objects, books, and anti