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Dr Sibylle Hoiman will be the new Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts at the National Museums in Berlin. This was decided by the SPK Foundation Board at its meeting on 5 December 2022. The art historian, who currently heads the Architectural Art Archive at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, su

Following the unanimous decision of the US Supreme Court, the US Court of Appeal once again halts the action for the return of the Guelph Treasure. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today affirmed the 2022 decision of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washi

The European Restoration Day will take place for the eighth time on 19 October 2025. The SPK institutions will also be offering exclusive insights into studios and exhibitions Around 130 conservators work at the SPK to preserve the most valuable cultural assets - mostly behind the scenes. On Restora

Working with collections: the Freie Universität Berlin and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz enter into a strategic partnership. This is of crucial importance to the Dahlem Research Campus. Multimedia collections lie at the focus of the strategic partnership between the Freie Universität Berlin

At its budget adjustment sitting on November 26, 2020, the budget committee of the Bundestag approved a special program for the upkeep of the historic buildings of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. At its budget adjustment sitting on November 26, 2020, the budget committee of the Bundestag, th

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

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

Privacy policy for the processing of personal data in video-monitored areas The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) uses video surveillance at its museums and other properties. In the following, we would like to inform you about the processing of personal data in this context. A. Responsible

From 1 April 2008, Dr Martina Rebmann will take over the management of the music department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, one of the most important collections of its kind in the world. This decision was taken by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage

In connection with Turkey's demand for the return of the Sphinx of Hattusha, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, explains: "The Hittite sphinx from Bogazköy (Hattusha) has been the subject of demands for its return from Turkey since the 1930s. Since then, nothi