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The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recovered four paintings from the Alte Nationalgalerie that had been lost since the Second World War. They were offered independently of each other in the art trade from private ownership and identified as the property of the Prussian Cultural Heritage F

Making Spaces Making Spaces: A Programming Series in Solidarity with Ukraine is a series of cross-institutional events of the SPK (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin). Throughout the series’ formats Talking Spaces, Performing Spaces

The Foundation’s Digitization Strategy As a multidisciplinary institution, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz has worked out a comprehensive digitization strategy for its museums, libraries, and archives. It defines tasks and priorities for the production of digital content. The Priorities for t

Architecture summit on the "Blue Sofa": Sir David Chipperfield, Jacques Herzog, Regine Leibinger, HG Merz and Franco Stella in conversation with Vivian Perkovic - On 19 November 2019 from 7 pm in the new James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin's Museum Island - TV broadcast on 19 November 2019 from 11:10 pm o

A section of wooden ceiling has now been mounted in the Domed Hall, where objects from the Silk Road region will be shown, part of the outstanding collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Chief restorer Toralf Gabsch explains the background. What is special a

The Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin holds two masks from the indigenous Kogi community from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. They are objects with a ritual background and still have sacred significance for the Kogi, whose self-designation is "Kágaba". Because of th

Forum Transregional Studien The Forum Transregionale Studien networks various research institutions in Berlin and Germany that are dedicated to regional studies. It supports projects that approach questions comparatively across several regions of the world. The first general meeting of the Forum Tra

Depot location of the National Museums in Berlin takes shape Berlin. In Berlin-Friedrichshagen, under the direction of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) and on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), a multifunctional depot building is being built for the

The "Benin bronzes" officially belong to Nigeria again. About a third of the transferred objects will remain on loan in Berlin and will be exhibited in the Humboldt Forum. On 25 august 2022, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director Ge

In the trial concerning Jäger's alleged art collection, which led to a legally binding judgement at the end of December 2011, the results of the extensive scientific investigations carried out by the Rathgen research laboratory helped to substantiate the suspicion of art forgery and, in particular,