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Two important faience vases from the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin were recently identified as former Jewish property. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has reached an agreement with the heirs that the vases can remain in the Museum of Decorative Arts, where they have

The Neues Museum, Museum Island Berlin, was honoured today with the main prize of the "European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award" in the "Conservation" category during a ceremony at the Baerwaldbad (Berlin-Kreuzberg). Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Herit

What do the bust of Nefertiti, the Market Gate of Miletus and Caspar David Friedrich's painting "The Lone Tree" have in common? Not only are they all famous crowd-pullers at the National Museums in Berlin, they are also at the centre of a new international piano art festival that Young Euro Classic

The winner of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship will conduct research at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) on the museum presentation of knowledge and, in close cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN), will also provide new im

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation looks back on a quarter of a century of its reunited collections. Between 1991 and 1992, the libraries, archives and museums brought together what had been divided for four and a half decades. To mark the anniversary, the SPK magazine tells the story of the

The lawsuit against the SPK for the return of the Guelph Treasure was allowed by the U.S. Court of Appeals, but dismissed against the Federal Republic of Germany. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will now examine further options. In February 2015, a lawsuit for the return of the Guelph Trea

The SPK was recently able to recover four works of art for the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin that had been thought lost. They belong to a collection of 219 miniatures that Berlin city councillor Loewe had bequeathed to the museum in 1897. The four works have now turned up on the

New layout, new structure, new content - the website of the State Institute for Music Research www.simpk.de has been completely relaunched. The new website of the State Institute for Music Research has been online for a few days now. With its completely revised structure and new design, it is much c

Open access to scientific knowledge as a central field of action for the SPK - new Open Science Declaration adopted Open science is not only a key issue in science and research, but also in the cultural sector and in society in general. In addition to Open Access, this also requires Open Data and Op

The 2021 Annual Report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has just been published. SPK President Hermann Parzinger writes in the editorial that the past twelve months have been characterised above all by "a longing for normality". Despite the pandemic-related impositions, many visitors onc