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Thorsten Strauß, Global Head of Art, Culture & Sports at Deutsche Bank AG, continues to head the Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage. He was unanimously confirmed as Chairman last week and was already involved in the previous Museum Island Board of Trustees. Anne Reidt, Head of the Cultu

The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will address the legal questions raised by the SPK regarding the admissibility of the Guelph Treasure proceedings in the USA. The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will review the legal questions raised by the SPK regarding jurisdiction over th

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday ruled on fundamental legal questions regarding the jurisdiction of U.S. courts in the legal dispute over the Guelph Treasure. It overturned the decision of the lower courts, which had rejected the SPK's motion to dismiss, and referred the case back to the U.S. Distri

Court finds: Action for surrender of Guelph treasure inadmissible - case does not belong before US courts Last week, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., ruled in favour of the SPK's motion to dismiss the claim for the return of the Guelph Treasure. The lawsuit w

Long-standing Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin passes away at the age of 81 - Parzinger: architect of the museum landscape in reunified Berlin Wolf-Dieter Dube, the long-serving Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, has died. He died in Berlin on Wednesday at the age

Directorate of the Gemäldegalerie to be re-advertised - Management of the Nationalgalerie to be divided into three positions - Grütters and Parzinger thank Michael Eissenhauer On 23 November 2020, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Cu

Parzinger: This is the keystone of our reform / New law to come into force on 1 December 2025 On Friday night (31 January), the German Bundestag passed a new law for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. SPK President Hermann Parzinger commented: "The new SPK Act is a decisive step towards guid

Collector transfers important works from the 1960s from Bruce Nauman to Lawrence Weiner / Parzinger: Important documents on the emergence of artistic ideas The collector Egidio Marzona has once again made a significant donation to the Art Library. Following the exhibition The Very First Edition. Art

On July 7, the guests toured the Humboldt Forum and on the next day they visited the storage facility in Dahlem containing objects from Benin. On a visit to Berlin, the Nigerian partners and Sir David Adjaye, the architect of the Edo State Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA) being built in Benin Cit

Parzinger: Day of joy and appreciation for the Nationalgalerie / Celebration with Minister of State for Culture Grütters and Governing Mayor Müller at the Villa von der Heydt Now that it has been decided who will build the Museum of the 20th Century at Berlin's Kulturforum, the collector couple Ulla