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  1. Welfenschatz: American court decides on the admissibility of the lawsuit (01.04.2017)

    The action for the return of the Guelph Treasure was partially allowed by the U.S. District Court at first instance. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, which had filed a motion to dismiss the action in its entirety as inadmissible, will now examine its further options. In February 2015, a la

  2. Museum Berggruen on exhibition tour - refurbishment of the Stüler Building until 2025 (07.07.2022)

    The Museum Berggruen goes travelling: Exhibition tour of important masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne and Klee to Japan, China and Paris - Closure of the Berlin museum from 5 September 2022 - Reopening planned for 2025 after major refurbishment The Museum Berggruen is going on tour with an ex

  3. Return of the Berlin Benin bronzes (25.08.2022)

    Ownership of all Berlin "Benin Bronzes" transferred to Nigeria - around a third of the works remain on loan in Berlin - further collaboration planned Today Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director General of the National Commissio

  4. Nazi-looted art: SPK restitutes to Cassirer heirs (03.03.2025)

    SPK restitutes two works by Max Slevogt to the heirs of Bruno Cas-sirer and buys back both works. The painting "Portrait of Bruno Cassirer", the purchase of which was made possible by the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, will be exhibited in the Alte Nationalgalerie from March 4, 2025 SPK has restit

  5. Nazi-looted art: SPK restitutes to Cassirer heirs (03.03.2025)

    SPK restitutes two works by Max Slevogt to the heirs of Bruno Cassirer and buys back both works. The painting "Portrait of Bruno Cassirer", the purchase of which was made possible by the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, will be exhibited in the Alte Nationalgalerie from 4 March 2025 The SPK has rest

  6. Dr des. Andrea Schlosser receives Ernst Waldschmidt Prize of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation / Award honours outstanding academic achievements in the field of Indology (02.12.2014)

    Dr des. Andrea Schlosser was awarded this year's Ernst Waldschmidt Prize for her dissertation "On the Bodhisattva Path in Gandhāra. Edition of Fragment 4 and 11 from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts". The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation a

  7. Coming to the world differently: The Humboldt Forum in the palace. A workshop view (08.07.2009)

    The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and the Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin will be presenting concepts and methods for the Humboldt Forum on Berlin's Schlossplatz for the first time as future partners and stakeholders. As one

  8. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presents its annual programme and plans for the future (28.04.2022)

    Annual reception 2022 in the James-Simon-Galerie - Parzinger: We have new strategic goals and are facing up to the great challenges of our time The institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provide an insight into their annual programme and their plans for the future. As President He

  9. New director for the Berlin Museum of Asian Art (01.12.2009)

    Dr Klaas Ruitenbeek will succeed Prof. Dr Willibald Veit, who retired yesterday, as Director of the Museum of Asian Art at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin from the beginning of January 2010. Ruitenbeek, who was unanimously chosen by the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,

  10. SPK decides to return two Toi moko (02.09.2020)

    There are two mummified heads of face-tattooed Māori men (Toi moko) in the collections of the Ethnological Museum. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), to which the Ethnological Museum belongs, will return them to New Zealand. In autumn 2019, the Museum of New Zealand asked Te Papa Tonga