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On Friday 20 January, the SPK returned a statuette of a 16th century Maria Lactans (Nursing Mother of God) to the heirs of the Jewish banker and entrepreneur Jakob Goldschmidt. The work had been acquired in 1936 for the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (then: Königliche Museen

Closing date: 13.06.2024, 2.30 pm SPK restitutes 25 objects from the Collection of Classical Antiquities with dubious provenance to Italy - Contract signed with Minister of State for Culture Roth and Italian Minister of Culture Sangiuliano in Berlin - Parzinger: Restitution agreement intensifies coo

On Sunday 13 September 2026, the Kulturforum Berlin is hosting the fifth edition of its major festival, ‘A Day in the Green’. This year’s focus is on the Kulturforum’s diverse architecture. Once again, there are numerous free outdoor activities on offer: guided tours, workshops, music and Berlin’s l

Ownership of disputed collections will be transferred to a foundation under private law - SPK gives up objects as part of a compensation scheme - Parzinger: Museum visitors stand to gain the most from this agreement On 26 May 2025, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,

Today's topping-out ceremony for the new Archaeology Competence Centre in the presence of Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and Jan Mücke, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Building Ministry, marks a further s

A few days ago, the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning handed over the first completed rooms in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's Unter den Linden building to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Over the next few weeks, the librarians will move into the rooms - vault storage, st

Human remains that were in the collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin were returned to Australia today, 5 December 2024. Together with the Australian Embassy, the Ethnological Museum organised a memorial service for the ancestors, who are now travelling home. They w

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

Yesterday, the Advisory Board of the Provenance Research Centre at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation decided for the second time on applications for funding for long-term provenance research projects. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, said: "It is an

To mark its 350th anniversary, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is opening the special exhibition "A library makes history. 350 years of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin". For ten weeks, it will be presenting top items from its collections at nine stations. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian C