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  1. New image brochure of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation published (30.01.2019)

    Secrets, conversations and walks through the SPK cosmos - Celebrities such as Bibiana Beglau, Tim Raue and Robin Ticciati guide us through their favourite pieces - Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz supports the publication designed by BUREAU Mario Lombardo The new image brochure "Once around the w

  2. Guelph Treasure restitution proceedings: Update (12.07.2019)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) will appeal to the United States Supreme Court to dismiss the action for the return of the Guelph Treasure on the grounds that the American courts lack jurisdiction. In February 2015, a lawsuit for the return of the Guelph Treasure was filed against th

  3. Welfenschatz: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appeals against admissibility decision (21.04.2017)

    In February 2015, a U.S. federal district court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., for the return of the Guelph Treasure (Philipp and Stiebel v. Federal Republic of Germany and Stiftung Preußischer Cultural Heritage). The SPK is of the opinion that this action

  4. "Art through credit" - On the article "Berliner Blamage" in DER SPIEGEL, issue 45/2017 (07.11.2017)

    The book "Kunst durch Kredit" (De Gruyter, 2017) by Lynn Rother examines the purchase of around 4,400 works of art owned by Dresdner Bank by the State of Prussia for the Berlin museums in 1935 from the perspective of art and banking history. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) points out

  5. Welfenschatz: U.S. District Court dismisses lawsuit (30.08.2022)

    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

  6. Christoph Müller Elected President of the Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina (REDIAL) (22.06.2026)

    Christoph Müller, Deputy Director of the Library of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI, Ibero-American Institute, IAI) of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation), was unanimously elected president by the General Assembly of the Red Europea de Informació

  7. Now new: The fresh SPKmagazine - online! (31.03.2023)

    The SPK's new web magazine is better, fresher, richer in images. Completely new presentation of content from the SPK's entire range of topics at spkmagazin.de, made possible by the Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz With the launch of SPKmagazin, SPK presents its immense thematic breadth in a new o

  8. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation cancels Tehran exhibition (27.12.2016)

    Parzinger: Iran still not granting export licence for artworks - SPK committed to cultural dialogue The planned exhibition "The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin" at the Berlin Gemäldegalerie will now not be able to take place as planned. As the President of the Prus

  9. New logos: Common image for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its five institutions (28.06.2011)

    From July 2011, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its five institutions (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Geheimes Staatsarchiv PK, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung) will appear with new logos that convey a uniform image. The

  10. 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