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German museums and exhibition centres recorded a total of almost 118 million visits in 2014, almost 3 million more than in the previous year. These figures were published by the Institute for Museum Research at the National Museums in Berlin and the German Museums Association. They have been conduct

Deutsche Welle and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation have agreed to work more closely together as partners in the future. All three pillars of Deutsche Welle - DW-TV, DW-WORLD and DW-RADIO - will be increasingly focussing on outstanding events in the context of current affairs reporting, par

A few days ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restituted a drawing by the Romantic artist Carl Philipp Fohr from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heirs of its former owner Karl Mayer. The provenance of the work had been clarified during research as part of the provenance research project o

The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, has pointed out that provenance research in the SPK's collections is always designed to recognise unlawful acquisition and, if necessary, to return objects. This applies in particular to human remains. In this context, Pa

Closing date: 13.06.2024, 2.30 pm SPK restitutes 25 objects from the Collection of Classical Antiquities with dubious provenance to Italy - Contract signed with Minister of State for Culture Roth and Italian Minister of Culture Sangiuliano in Berlin - Parzinger: Restitution agreement intensifies coo

10.02.2026 SoNAR: Open data for historical network research Article Power, influence and social advancement are often based on invisible relationships. Historical network analysis can reveal such connections, but requires data that is difficult to access and scattered across numerous institutions. T

On Friday 20 January, the SPK returned a statuette of a 16th century Maria Lactans (Nursing Mother of God) to the heirs of the Jewish banker and entrepreneur Jakob Goldschmidt. The work had been acquired in 1936 for the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (then: Königliche Museen

WITH REGISTRATION, ADMISSION FREE (some offers subject to charge) The 8th International Day of Provenance Research will take place on 8 April 2026. On this day, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will offer insights into the topics and work of provenance research within their museums and institutions.

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned a Hebrew manuscript from the Berlin State Library to the "Beit Ariella" library in Tel Aviv. It is a Talmud commentary written in 1793, which was stolen from the public library in Israel around ten years ago. Unaware of this fact, the State Li

The participants of this year's meeting of the Benin Dialogue Group agreed last Friday that a new museum with a regularly changing exhibition of works of art from the former Kingdom of Benin should be established in Benin City. European and Nigerian museums will provide works of art on loan for this