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In February 2015, a U.S. federal district court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., for the return of the Guelph Treasure (Philipp and Stiebel v. Federal Republic of Germany and Stiftung Preußischer Cultural Heritage). The SPK is of the opinion that this action

Every two months, the SPK aims to provide information on the diversity of its research projects: from basic research to provenance research, from material research to perception research - the Prussian Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees supports the new format The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation gets a Chief Information Officer - Digital transformation is progressing In recent years, the SPK has taken numerous steps to develop further in the area of digitalisation. Since 2017, new measures have been initiated and a digital strategy developed for SPK

Human remains in the collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin are returned to Australia. The Australian government has been in dialogue with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) for several years regarding human remains from the collections of the Ethnologi

The spring issue of the Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte will be published on 22 February 2021 with the title "Kolonialwaren". The magazine is jointly edited by Ulrike Gleixner, Alexandra Kemmerer, Michael Matthiesen and SPK President Hermann Parzinger . The editors have this to say about the announc

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

Some 1600 objects illustrate developments in the first millennium B.C. Almost half of them once belonged to the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, but owing to the war are now in Russian museums. The exhibition "Iron Age – Europe Without Borders" can be seen from November 11, 2020 to February 28, 2

With the support of the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz recently acquired a "Mother of God Enthroned" for the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. We invite you to the ceremonial handover in the Basilica of

Museums in Germany reported a total of 104,852,334 visits in 2008. Although this represents a decrease of 2.3% compared to 2007, it is still the second-highest number of visits since the survey began in 1981. These figures have now been published by the Institute for Museum Research at the National

A large-scale German-Russian research project on the loss of valuable works of art and cultural artefacts from Russian museums during the Second World War has been launched under the title "Russian Museums in the Second World War". The project partners are delighted to have received funding from the