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  1. Research Questions: Art, Theft, Restitution (30.03.2026)

    The lives and fates of persecuted Jews have all too often been forgotten. Drawing on cases of restitution, the SPK, the Bavarian State Painting Collections, rbb and BR are sharing selected life stories. Project coordinator Anke Lünsmann is available to answer your questions about the project.

  2. Research Questions: Art, Theft, Restitution (30.03.2026)

    The lives and fates of persecuted Jews have all too often been forgotten. Drawing on cases of restitution, the SPK, the Bavarian State Painting Collections, rbb and BR are sharing selected life stories. Project coordinator Anke Lünsmann is available to answer your questions about the project.

  3. Opening of the exhibition "The Victoria of Calvatone: The Fate of a Masterpiece" at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (06.12.2019)

    On 7 December 2019, the exhibition "The Victoria of Calvatone: The Fate of a Masterpiece", organised by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the National Museums in Berlin, will open in the Hermitage's "Roman Court" room. The exhibition marks the completion of the restoration of the stat

  4. Nazi-looted art: work by Camille Pissarro restituted and purchased for the Alte Nationalgalerie (18.10.2021)

    SPK returns "Une Place à la Roche-Guyon" by Camille Pissarro to the Dorville heirs and purchases it for the Alte Nationalgalerie The representatives of the Armand Dorville heirs visited the Alte Nationalgalerie today to sign the restitution and purchase agreement for the work. The work was acquired

  5. 7th Day of Provenance Research on 9 April 2025 at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (08.04.2025)

    The International Day of Provenance Research is taking place for the seventh time this year. On this day, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will once again provide insights into the diverse work of provenance researchers. In addition to the traditional guided provenance walks in cooperation with other

  6. Slight increase in visitor numbers to German museums - Over 109 million museum visits in 2011 (13.12.2012)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 109,581,613 museum visits in 2011. This represents an increase of 0.35 per cent compared to 2010, and is once again the highest number of visits since the survey began in 1981. The results are part of the overall statistical survey of museums and exhibition cen

  7. Modernity from Tehran comes to Berlin (21.10.2015)

    Steinmeier: We need the diplomacy of culture right now - Parzinger: Building bridges in conflict-ridden times One of the largest and most valuable collections of Western contemporary art has been hidden away for decades in the Iranian capital Tehran, and soon the top works from the French Impression

  8. SPK researches the origin of human remains from East Africa - Gerda Henkel Foundation supports the project (02.08.2017)

    As part of a pilot project, the SPK will be researching the provenance of around a thousand human skulls from the former colony of German East Africa from the beginning of October. The project is based at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin and is funded by t

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation receives the estate of Leni Riefenstahl (12.02.2018)

    Heiress donates extensive photographic and film holdings, manuscripts, letters, files and documents - Art Library and State Library will process the estate - Cooperation with the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek planned - Parzinger: "This estate demands special responsibility from the SPK The Prussian C

  10. Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation recovers valuable artefacts that belong in the Gothic House (25.05.2018)

    In Wörlitz, SPK President Hermann Parzinger hands over 21 objects that were in the possession of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin's Museum of Decorative Arts as external property The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has returned 21 artefacts to the Dessau-Wörlitz Cultural Foundation that were pr