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The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) has been elected a full member of the German Research Foundation (DFG). This was decided today at the DFG's General Assembly in Bonn. For Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, this decision is a great success and a

Unknown Ownership The term “unknown ownership” is used for objects that do not belong to the Foundation but whose provenance is uncertain. The Foundation tries to identify the legal owners of such objects and to return them. “Equestrian Battle” was moved to the storeroom of the Gemäldegalerie for sa

The SPK and Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (Bavarian State Painting Collections) are launching a joint project in memory of those persecuted by the Nazis. The multimedia archive will record their lives and fates, revealing the personal stories behind restitution cases. The project will receive 6

Berliner Antike-Kolleg Berlin was once and is now again a center for studies of antiquity. The Antike-Kolleg takes up this tradition. Specialists in nearly every region and period of the cultures of the ancient world do their research here. The Berliner Antike-Kolleg (Berlin College of Ancient Studi

Protection of Cultural Heritage The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz protects the cultural property in its possession in various special ways. It is also actively involved in many projects and partnerships for the protection of cultural heritage worldwide. All around the world, cultural property i

The life-size figure "Le Drame Lyrique", also known as the "Violinist", once adorned the foyer of the Opéra Comique. Until 1932, the work by French sculptor Alexandre Falguière (1831-1900) was displayed in the foyer of the third oldest theatre institution in Paris. After being transferred to the Mus

The curator saved hundreds of masterpieces by Kirchner, Heckel, Picasso and Beckmann from the Nazi iconoclasm - and kept quiet about it for the rest of his life - now he is being remembered for the first time and his daring rescue operation is being comprehensively reconstructed Summer 1937: The Nat

Cluster of Excellence: “TOPOI: The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilizations” The Topoi excellence cluster is a research network with a focus on studies of antiquity. It combines the strengths and resources of six universities and research institutions in Berlin. T

Parzinger: We are ready for immediate return and are waiting for signals from the countries of origin In a project launched in 2017, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin) worked with scientis

During excavations in the historic centre of Berlin, archaeologists from the state of Berlin have found eleven sculptures that were confiscated from German museums in 1937 as part of the National Socialist "Degenerate Art" campaign. They are bronzes by Edwin Scharff, Otto Baum, Marg Moll, Gustav Hei