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  1. Lost Work by Eduard Gaertner Returns to Kupferstichkabinett (24.03.2022)

    Work by Eduard Gaertner back in the Kupferstichkabinett: Believed lost in wartime, but recognized at auction; donated to the museum by its prospective seller. Eduard Gaertner’s Der Leipziger Platz in Berlin (1862) has recently been returned to the Kupferstichkabinett (Museum of Prints and Drawings).

  2. Restitution of Fritz Huf’s Sculpture by the SPK (28.03.2022)

    The sculpture "Ruhende Frau", by Fritz Huf, was restored to the heir of Hans (Jean) Fürstenberg and then purchased by the SPSG for the park at Schloss Schönhausen. On April 5, 2022, the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preussischer Kulturbesitz (National Museums in Berlin) will t

  3. Found in the United States: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recovers Egyptian stele that had been lost since the Second World War (30.05.2017)

    Valuable faience stele resurfaced in Michigan after seventy years during research work / Parzinger thanks American museum for great gesture A valuable Egyptian object that recently returned to Berlin can be seen again in the Neues Museum on Museum Island from mid-June. The upper part of a faience st

  4. From 15 January 2024: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation adjusts admission prices for museums (13.12.2023)

    SPK President Parzinger: We have to react to the increased costs - museum visits should nevertheless remain affordable in international comparison - free admission for visitors aged 18 and under - Museum Sunday to remain The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will make moderate adjustments to adm

  5. Disputed heritage, shared responsibility (08.12.2020)

    Working with collections: the Freie Universität Berlin and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz enter into a strategic partnership. This is of crucial importance to the Dahlem Research Campus. Multimedia collections lie at the focus of the strategic partnership between the Freie Universität Berlin

  6. Toward Greater Diversity: SPK Signs Germany’s Charta der Vielfalt (01.03.2022)

    The SPK has signed the Charta der Vielfalt, Germany’s diversity charter. It hopes thus to strengthen awareness of diversity issues within the Foundation and in the exhibitions, events and other content it creates for the public. The SPK has signed Germany’s diversity charter, an industry-led initiat

  7. Museums close, libraries and archives open under certain conditions (30.10.2020)

    The museums of the SPK cease to open for the public from Monday, November 2, 2020 until the end of the month – its archives and libraries remain open, subject to conditions From Monday, November 2, 2020, until the end of the month, the SPK is no longer admitting members of the public to any of the m

  8. Wartime Casualty Returns to the Antikensammlung (05.05.2020)

    A Greek vase thought to be lost has reappeared in Magdeburg. It belonged to the Antikensammlung before the war. From late May onward, it will once again be on show in the Altes Museum. The vase is around 30 cm tall with a white coating, the slip, on which the farewell of a warrior is depicted in onc

  9. Turkey's demand for the return of the Sphinx of Hattusha (25.02.2011)

    In connection with Turkey's demand for the return of the Sphinx of Hattusha, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, explains: "The Hittite sphinx from Bogazköy (Hattusha) has been the subject of demands for its return from Turkey since the 1930s. Since then, nothi

  10. Berlin State Library opens exhibition to mark 350th anniversary (03.03.2011)

    To mark its 350th anniversary, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is opening the special exhibition "A library makes history. 350 years of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin". For ten weeks, it will be presenting top items from its collections at nine stations. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian C