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  1. Restitution and purchase of the sculpture "Resting Woman" by Fritz Huf (28.03.2022)

    SPK restitutes sculpture by Fritz Huf to the heiress of Hans (Jean) Fürstenberg - SPSG purchases work for the park of Schönhausen Palace On 5 April 2022, the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) will hand over the bronze sculpture "Resting Woman", creat

  2. Priorities of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in 2023 (16.02.2023)

    Annual reception at the Pergamonmuseum - Parzinger: "We will resolve the reform backlog and enable the institutions to take on more responsibility and autonomy - but at the same time further develop the SPK foundation network. At the annual reception on Wednesday evening, the institutions of the Pru

  3. 250 Years of U.S. Independence: Hemispheric Perspectives (13.07.2026)

    July 4, 2026, marked the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence Day. On this occasion, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) has launched a Program Initiative in which the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI) is participating with a Lecture Series. The IAI

  4. Pop-up vaccination centre at the Kulturforum (18.01.2022)

    From 20 to 23 January 2022, vaccinations will take place in the foyer of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin at the Kulturforum. Vaccination protects - including culture. That's why the SPK and Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH will be setting up a pop-up vaccination centre at the Kulturforum (Matthäikirchplatz

  5. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Smithsonian Institution launch German-American exchange programme on provenance research (18.10.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Smithsonian Institution (SI, Washington, USA), two of the world's largest museum complexes and research institutions, are launching a project to systematically network German and American provenance researchers. The three-year "German-American

  6. 10 MUSEUMS X 10 CONCERTS - Chamber Concerts of the DSO with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (12.09.2024)

    Start of the new series on Fri, 13 Sept. at the Museum of European Cultures Unique concerts by selected ensembles of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in unique venues of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) - that's what 10 MUSEEN X 10 KONZERTE offers. Since 2010, the DSO and th

  7. Facilitating the use of digitised cultural heritage in science and education (14.11.2013)

    Five public cultural institutions join the Berlin Declaration on Open Access and publish their conditions with the best practice recommendation. On 19 November 2013, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, the Federal Archives,

  8. 100 years of the State Institute for Music Research: Magazine published to mark the anniversary (12.06.2017)

    The "Soundlabor" at Potsdamer Platz was founded in 1917 in Bückeburg, Lower Saxony: The SPK magazine traces its history and presents the current work of the State Institute for Music Research in reports, interviews and portraits. It is published thanks to the support of the Kuratorium Preußischer Ku

  9. Benin bronzes: Agreement for repatriation still in 2022 (28.06.2022)

    SPK President Parzinger: Objects should be returned to Nigeria "as quickly as possible" - Long-term loans at the Humboldt Forum An agreement on the transfer of ownership and loans for the so-called Benin bronzes in the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin is to be

  10. Results of provenance research on skulls from West Africa published – provenance research on nearly 600 skulls completed (22.04.2026)

    As part of a project launched in 2021, the Museum of Prehistory and Early History at the State Museums in Berlin has investigated the provenance of nearly 600 skulls from the former German colonies in West Africa, in collaboration with researchers from Togo and Cameroon. The findings of this project