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  1. Parzinger honours Werner Knopp: A true president of unity (29.01.2016)

    The long-standing President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation celebrates his 85th birthday this Sunday - Born in Braunschweig, he headed Germany's largest cultural institution in Berlin for over twenty years On the occasion of his 85th birthday this Sunday (31 January), the President of t

  2. Parzinger: We are not simply switching off Dahlem (09.01.2017)

    Thousands visit the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art last weekend The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, has given a positive assessment of the closing weekend for the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art in Dahlem. Before both museum

  3. On yesterday's ARD programme "FAKT" about human remains from the former colony of German East Africa / Parzinger does not rule out returns (23.11.2016)

    Yesterday's programme FAKT (ARD, 21.45 hrs) reported on allegedly new finds of human skulls from the colonial era, including in an alleged in a supposed "secret depot" of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Cultural Heritage Foundation. In 2014 and 2015, the SPK issued several press releases

  4. Urgently needed funds approved: Parzinger thanks the Budget Committee and Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters (14.11.2016)

    State Library's acquisition budget increases - Pergamon Museum construction schedule secured - Plaster moulding shop to be expanded - Museum 4.0 launched At the end of last week, the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approved additional funding for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. T

  5. Hermann Parzinger on the joint project of the Sculpture Collection of the National Museums in Berlin and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow "Donatello and Renaissance Sculpture" (19.05.2016)

    As part of the long-term cooperation between the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, sculptures and fragments from the Italian Renaissance that were part of the Berlin sculpture collection before the war were identified in the Moscow museum in 2015. As a

  6. Hermann Parzinger at the G7 meeting of culture ministers in Florence (30.03.2017)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, is attending the first meeting of G7 culture ministers under the Italian Presidency in Florence today. The meeting will focus on "culture as an instrument of dialogue between peoples" and will address issues of cultural diver

  7. SPK supports Europe-wide import regulation for cultural property from non-EU countries - Parzinger: Important instrument against illegal trade (18.01.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation welcomes the European Commission's procedure to create an EU-wide import regulation from non-EU countries. Foundation President Hermann Parzinger explains: "The SPK supports such a further instrument for the sustainable prevention of trade in illegal cultura

  8. Parzinger: Museum of European Cultures will be represented with a showcase in the Humboldt Forum (18.07.2016)

    The Museum of European Cultures of the National Museums in Berlin will be represented with a showcase in the future Humboldt Forum. The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, welcomed the plans of the State of Berlin to seek co-operation with the successful Dahlem

  9. Hermann Parzinger on the donation by Heiner Bastian (06.10.2016)

    On the surprising news that the Heiner Bastian family will donate the house Bastian am Kupfergraben to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, waiving any compensation and without conditions, says Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK: "We are really surprised! You don't receive such a generous

  10. Museum Island gets the "Reinhold Würth Centre for Cultural Education and Mediation in the Bastian House" in 2017 - Grütters and Parzinger thank Reinhold Würth and the Heiner Bastian family for their generous commitment (30.09.2016)

    The "Haus Bastian" on Kupfergraben, built by David Chipperfield, will become the "Reinhold Würth Centre for Cultural Education and Mediation in Haus Bastian" of the National Museums in Berlin. A generous donation from entrepreneur and collector Reinhold Würth and an equally generous offer from the B