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  1. SPK restitutes works to Oppenheim heirs (22.01.2018)

    Eleven works that belonged to Margarete Oppenheim's collection until 1936 were identified in the Kunstgewerbemuseum and the Skulpturensammlung of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. A fair and equitable solution based on the Washington Principles was found for the works, which came to the museums via d

  2. Summary of the conference "20 years of the Washington Principles: Paths to the Future" (28.11.2018)

    An international conference from 26 to 28 November 2018 in Berlin will be dedicated to the implementation of the Washington Principles on the Handling of Nazi-looted Property since their adoption in 1998. Around 800 participants, including leading experts, organisations, Holocaust survivors and thei

  3. In Focus 2022: SPK puts itself to the test – Kulturforum (30.03.2026)

    For the 2022 Annual Report, we invited cultural correspondents to spend a day exploring places they long to visit, their favourite venues, and the worlds of archives, libraries and collections. We set few parameters; we weren’t looking for courtly reporting, but rather insights and inspiration. Ever

  4. In Focus 2022: SPK puts itself to the test – Mid-term (30.03.2026)

    For the 2022 Annual Report, we invited cultural correspondents to spend a day exploring places they long to visit, their favourite venues, and the worlds of archives, libraries and collections. We set few parameters; we weren’t looking for courtly reporting, but rather insights and inspiration. Ever

  5. In Focus 2022: SPK puts itself to the test – Kulturforum (30.03.2026)

    For the 2022 Annual Report, we invited cultural correspondents to spend a day exploring places they long to visit, their favourite venues, and the worlds of archives, libraries and collections. We set few parameters; we weren’t looking for courtly reporting, but rather insights and inspiration. Ever

  6. In Focus 2022: SPK puts itself to the test – Mid-term (30.03.2026)

    For the 2022 Annual Report, we invited cultural correspondents to spend a day exploring places they long to visit, their favourite venues, and the worlds of archives, libraries and collections. We set few parameters; we weren’t looking for courtly reporting, but rather insights and inspiration. Ever

  7. (Contemporary) history(ies) embedded in works of art (30.03.2026)

    The exhibition “From Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism. Provenances of the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection” at the Neue Nationalgalerie impressively demonstrates the fascinating connections that provenance research brings to light. A conversation with the exhibition’s curator

  8. (Contemporary) history(ies) embedded in works of art (30.03.2026)

    The exhibition “From Max Ernst to Dorothea Tanning: Networks of Surrealism. Provenances of the Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection” at the Neue Nationalgalerie impressively demonstrates the fascinating connections that provenance research brings to light. A conversation with the exhibition’s curator

  9. Gift from the Bode descendants for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (18.10.2006)

    One day after the grand opening of the Bode Museum, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin received a special gift today: Wilhelm von Bode's great-grandchildren from Germany and Switzerland presented General Director Peter-Klaus Schuster with a small majolica jug from the early Renaissance at the Bode Muse

  10. Speech by the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Klaus-Dieter Lehmann on the occasion of the opening of the Bode Museum (17.10.2006)

    Ladies and Gentlemen, When Kaiser Wilhelm II opened the museum on 18 October 1904, it was a rainy day, with uniforms, gowns and medal necklaces providing the colourful backdrop. Today we had glorious imperial weather, but the imperial era is long gone. The opening today is ennobled by the words of w