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A project to establish the origins of East African human remains starts in October 2017 at the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (MVF) of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Bernhard Heeb, curator of the MVF and manager of the project, explains why the museum has a skull collection and how it is being

Conducting provenance research on ethnological collections is often more difficult than research on Nazi-confiscated art, the president of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Hermann Parzinger, said in an interview with Maria Ossowski of Deutschlandfunk. But, he pointed out, the Humboldt-Forum w

The upper exhibition hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie at Berlin's Kulturforum has been visible in its former glory since December 2020. Today, the keys for the entire, fully refurbished building are being handed over to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Owin

Sustainable Protection of Cultural Heritage in the Countries of Origin The Foundation works to sustainably protect cultural assets in countries of origin as well. It runs various projects for capacity building: providing training for local experts so they are better able to undertake it themselves.

SPK Magazine 1/2016: Heimat? What is Heimat? Meaning more than just “home,” it’s a hot topic in Germany right now. In the new issue, SPK Magazine joins in the debate on the future of society. Issue No. 9 (2016), cover feature: Heimat? © SPK / Ina Niehoff, Design: StudioKrimm All Its Aspects What sho

The genetic investigations on six skulls from the collection of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History (Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin) have been completed. There was no match with the DNA of Mangi Meli. Mangi Meli (1866-1900) was executed by the German colon

Parzinger: Iran still not issuing export permit for works of art – SPK committed to cultural dialogue The exhibition “The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin” planned for the Gemäldegalerie – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will not be able to take place as scheduled. As t

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

Exactly ten years ago, on 12 August 2005, the bust of Nefertiti returned to the Museumsinsel (Museum Island) after decades spent in several other places in Berlin and the rest of Germany. Today the likeness of the pharaoh’s “Great Royal Wife” attracts thousands of visitors to the Neues Museum each y

Elaborately packaged and lifted by crane out through the window – with skillful handling and under the watchful eye of the scientists, a South Seas boat travels from the Martin-Gropius-Bau back to the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) in Dahlem. For three months, numerous objects from the