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Clear Guidelines for the Protection of Cultural Heritage Some years ago, the Foundation adopted an internal policy on dealing responsibly with ancient artifacts. German law does not yet protect cultural property adequately. The SPK therefore advocates new cultural heritage legislation. The Foundatio

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

Gender Equality Plan Die Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz steht als Kultur- und Wissenschaftseinrichtung für Chancengleichheit, Weltoffenheit und die Vielfalt der Gesellschaft. In der Geschäftsordnung ist festgeschrieben, dass die Gleichstellung aller Menschen ein Leitprinzip der Stiftungsarbeit is

Museumsinsel Berlin, Historical Center, and Humboldt Forum The Museumsinsel and the original building of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin are located in Berlin’s historical center. In the future, the Foundation will present its museums’ non-European collections at the Humboldt Forum there as well. The

Pictures of the destruction of Palmyra, a world heritage site, have made the need for cultural heritage protection clear to all. Markus Hilgert, Director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, is working on many fronts for the sustainable preservation of cultural heritage. On

Dealing with Cultural Assets Looted by the National Socialists The National Socialists systematically took art and books from those they persecuted. The Foundation searches for just and fair solutions based on the Washington Principles for looted assets that ended up in its collections. Im August 19

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

A recent resolution of the UN Security Council has affirmed that the protection of cultural heritage is not just a cultural issue, but also a security problem. Markus Hilgert, director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, talks about the challenges this presents to the

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

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