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  1. ”Returns help the Kogi’s traditions and customs gain the respect they deserve.” (16.06.2023)

    The SPK returned masks made by the Kogi people to Colombia during Colombian President Gustavo Petro Urrego’s visit with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Until recently, the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin) held

  2. Students from the Cologne and Hanover music academies win the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's classical music competition (15.01.2011)

    The 2011 Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition was won by soprano Anna Lucia Richter from the Cologne University of Music and Dance in the vocal category. In the brass ensemble category, this year's prize went to the "Schwerpunkt" quintet from the Hanover University of Music and Theatre. Around si

  3. Start of the second construction phase for the overall completion of the Pergamonmuseum (06.03.2025)

    On-schedule continuation of the basic refurbishment and extension of the Pergamon Museum with the start of the southern construction phase on Berlin's Museum Island Construction work on the second construction phase of the Pergamonmuseum is scheduled to begin in March 2025. The construction measures

  4. Stone Axes and a Bronze Sword — Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte Receives More “Finds” from the Ruins of the Former Kunstgewerbemuseum (17.05.2022)

    Nineteen bronze axes, a bronze sword, and fifteen stone axes have found their way back to the collection of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte. Some of these artifacts were probably part of the important Bennewitz Hoard. After the widow of Berlin-based painter Peter Grämer returned objects to th

  5. What the SPK museums have planned for the coming year Press conference on the 2026 programme preview (17.11.2025)

    From Constantin Brancusi to Verner Panton, from Genghis Khan to Paul Cassirer, from the discovery of community to heavy material - this is the spectrum of exhibition highlights with which the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library and the State Institute for Music Research hope to attr

  6. 4A_Lab

    4A_Lab 4A Laboratory: Art Histories, Archaeologies, Anthropologies, Aesthetics (4A_Lab) is a research and fellowship program designed in cooperation with Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institute and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz including their museums and research institutio

  7. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Competition 2009 decided (18.01.2009)

    Piano duo from Saarbrücken University of Applied Sciences and Arts and string quartet from Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts win Germany's oldest classical music prize The winners of Germany's oldest classical music prize will be announced today at a concert in the concert hall of the

  8. Right to be Returned?

    21.11.2018 Right to be Returned? Article An estimated 600,000 works of art were plundered by the Nazis. A summary of restitutions to date Twenty years have passed since the Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets. This is an anniversary to celebrate even if the fact itself is no reason for joy

  9. Using this Website

    Using this Website The website of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz is easy to use. Below you will find a few tips on using the many features of the site as well as information regarding accessibility. Design for All (In Information and Communications Technology) The Stiftung Preussischer Kultu

  10. Guelph Treasure - not Nazi-looted property (29.05.2009)

    The Guelph Treasure, the largest German church treasure owned by a public art collection, is preserved in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. The Prussian state purchased it from a consortium of dealers in 1935. In January 2008, the heirs of these dealers, who were Jewish, asked the Prussian Cultu