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  1. SPK supports Europe-wide import regulation for cultural property from non-EU countries - Parzinger: Important instrument against illegal trade (18.01.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation welcomes the European Commission's procedure to create an EU-wide import regulation from non-EU countries. Foundation President Hermann Parzinger explains: "The SPK supports such a further instrument for the sustainable prevention of trade in illegal cultura

  2. "museum4punkt0": Sub-project Explain, understand and participate in research in museums (08.05.2017)

    "museum4punkt0 - Digital strategies for the museum of the future" starts today. The Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz is involved with the sub-project "Explaining, understanding and participating in museum research". The Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz (SMNG) is the second largest

  3. SPK intensifies cooperation with the University of Oxford (10.09.2018)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and University of Oxford sign Memorandum of Understanding to deepen strategic partnership The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will work more closely with the University of Oxford in the areas of conservation, digitisation, research, exhibitions and visitor

  4. Henrietta Lidchi becomes the new director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art (11.12.2025)

    Henrietta Lidchi will be the new Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art as well as Director of the Collections in the Humboldt Forum from May 2026. She succeeds Lars-Christian Koch, who has moved to the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony. Henrietta Lidchi studied Anthr

  5. SPK restitutes a statuette to the heirs of Charlotte Prybram-Gladona (23.02.2026)

    The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz has restituted the sculpture of a "Christ at the Column" from the collection of the journalist and publisher Albin von Prybram-Gladona. The provenance of the work was discovered as part of systematic provenance research into the acquisitions of the sculpture col

  6. Hermann Parzinger receives the Reuchlin Prize 2011 (17.03.2011)

    The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, receives the 2011 Reuchlin Prize, which has been awarded every two years since 1955 for outstanding German-language achievements in the humanities. The Reuchlin Prize has been awarded every two years since 1955 by the cit

  7. Significant donation of contemporary Mexican prints to the IAI (22.03.2012)

    The Ibero-American Institute (IAI) received a valuable collection of contemporary prints and a sculpture from the Mexican Embassy as a generous donation from the Mexican government. The portfolio entitled "Estampas, independencia y revolución" (Prints, Independence and Revolution) brings together a

  8. Relaunch of the Museum Island Masterplan website (30.10.2012)

    A new layout and completely revised content: The website www.museumsinsel-berlin.de provides information about the measures of the Museum Island Masterplan and brings the future of the Museum Island to life. The completely revised website www.museumsinsel-berlin.de is online in time for the opening

  9. Ceremonial event "Loss and Restitution" on 30 October 2008, speech by Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and spokesman for the "German-Russian Museum Dialogue" (30.10.2008)

    - The spoken word prevails - Salutations, In the long shared history of Germany and Russia, the past 20th century was undoubtedly a special one with very dark but also brighter days. There was unimaginable suffering and inconceivable crimes that emanated from German soil and were committed in German

  10. Priorities of the SPK in 2025 (13.03.2025)

    Annual reception at the James-Simon-Galerie - Parzinger: New funding agreement is recognition of reform - Outstanding visitor balance 2024 - Attractive exhibition programme this year - Expansion of international collaborations Over 200 guests from politics, culture, science, business, tourism and so