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  1. U.S. Appeals Court issues decision on GuelphTreasure art restitution lawsuit (10.07.2018)

    U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its decision on 10 July, ordering the U.S. District Court to dismiss the lawsuit against the Federal Republic of Germany while allowing the lawsuit to proceed against SPK. Hermann Parzinger, president of Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SP

  2. Klaus Biesenbach is appointed as Director of Neue Nationalgalerie and the Museum of the 20th Century (10.09.2021)

    The Artistic Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and long-time chief curator at MoMA will take over the post in 2022 Today, the Foundation Board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture and the Media, decided that K

  3. Visitors Flock to the Palace of World Cultures (19.09.2022)

    Last weekend, over 25,000 visitors took the opportunity to experience the recently completed Humboldt Forum. The opening weekend of the recently finished Humboldt Forum has been a complete success. Over 25,000 visitors came to see the fully furnished exhibition rooms of the Ethnologisches Museum (Et

  4. Welfenschatz: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appeals against admissibility decision (21.04.2017)

    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

  5. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation launches new research newsletter (27.03.2020)

    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

  6. SPK will return human remains to Australia (11.09.2020)

    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

  7. Johann Herzberg becomes Chief Information Officer for SPK (16.06.2020)

    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

  8. Journal for the History of Ideas appears with the title "Colonial Goods" (19.02.2021)

    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

  9. German Digital Library starts work (02.12.2010)

    On 30 November 2010, the Board of Trustees and the General Assembly of the German Digital Library (DDB) Competence Network were constituted in Berlin. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and newly elected spokesman of the board of the competence network coordina

  10. Ideas Competition Museum of the 20th Century - Ideas Competition Museum of the 20th Century (12.02.2016)

    The ideas competition for the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum came to an end this Friday with the selection of ten winning designs. The teams of architects and landscape architects responsible for the award-winning designs have thus qualified to take part in the realisation compet