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Figures reported to the Institut für Museumsforschung at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin amount to around 111.6 million visits during 2019. This corresponds to the high levels of previous years. Some 5,000 museums and 350 exhibition venues took part in the comprehensive statistical survey in 2019. T

Ethnological Museum returns grave goods to indigenous peoples from Southwestern Alaska and plans further co-operation with Chugach Alaska Corporation. On May 16, Hermann Parzinger, president of Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural heritage Foundation), handed over nine objects f

A few weeks ago, a kimono dress created by Japanese designer Kenzō Takada was donated to the Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. As fashion curator Katrin Lindemann explains, the garment was long forgotten by its owner before eventually making its way to Ber

At its meeting on June 5, 2021 in Berlin, the chapter of the order held a regular election for the office of chancellor and the dual offices of vice chancellor. On June 5, 2021, SPK President Hermann Parzinger was elected chancellor of the Pour le mérite order. He succeeded the developmental biologi

Not far from the Museumsinsel (Museum Island), a home for the cultures of the world is being created in the new Berliner Schloss (Berlin Palace). In June 2015, two years after the cornerstone was laid, the topping out ceremony was held. Beginning in 2019, the planned Humboldt Forum in the reconstruc

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

Restitution and Other Solutions Several objects from the Ethnological Museum have already been restituted or repatriated. Returning an object is, however, only one of many possible solutions. These are worked out in dialogue with members of the societies of origin. Hermann Parzinger returns grave go

Beginning in 2019, the Humboldt Forum will showcase the cultures of the world – but where in Berlin can museum-goers actually experience architecture? The SPK’s president, Hermann Parzinger, makes a plea for the completion of the historical center of Berlin. When the 175th anniversary of the death o

The SPK has worked successfully with the heirs to reach a good solution for Nazi-confiscated cultural property. Margarete Oppenheim (1857–1935) owned one of the largest art collections in Germany. A fair and just solution in accordance with the Washington Principles has been agreed for a total of el

Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch have been collecting great art for fifty years. Now, they are donating to the City of Berlin approximately 150 works by artists of the modern period, such as Max Ernst, René Magritte, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. The pictures will be permanently displayed at the new mus