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  1. Intensified fight against illegally trafficked cultural property from Iraq: ICOM Red List of Emergencies supports the work of investigating authorities - Minister of State Böhmer hands over clay tablet to Iraqi ambassador (14.01.2016)

    The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has drawn up an emergency red list for Iraq to alert law enforcement and customs authorities, as well as collectors and dealers worldwide, to illegally traded cultural artefacts from this country. Such red lists contain examples of object types and categor

  2. 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

  3. From 16 April 2024: New opening hours at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and the Musikinstrumenten-Museum - late openings in the summer months (04.03.2024)

    Parzinger: We want to react more flexibly to visitor flows in future The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will change the opening hours of the National Museums in Berlin and the Musical Instrument Museum of the State Institute for Music Research from 16 April 2024. SPK President Hermann Parzing

  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. 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

  7. 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

  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. Outstanding late Gothic Madonna figure acquired for Berlin sculpture collection (25.05.2009)

    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

  10. German museums and exhibition centres remain very popular. Over 104 million museum visits in 2008 (03.11.2009)

    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