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  1. Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut on the report of the Wissenschaftsrat (23.09.2020)

    Statement of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI, Ibero-American Institute) on the report of the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) and the further reform process of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) The Scie

  2. Thank you, thank you, thank you, dear Pietzsches! (02.12.2016)

    Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch have been collecting great art for fifty years. Now, they are donating to the City of Berlin approximately 150 works by artists of the modern period, such as Max Ernst, René Magritte, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. The pictures will be permanently displayed at the new mus

  3. Nazi-Looted Art: Nursing Madonna Statuette Restituted (24.01.2023)

    The SPK has returned a 16th-century sculpture of the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Jesus to the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt. On January 20, the SPK returned a 16th-century statuette of a nursing Madonna to the heirs of the Jewish banker and businessman Jakob Goldschmidt. The work was acquired in 193

  4. Managing Non-European Objects

    Managing Non-European Objects To ensure that non-European objects and their history are managed properly, the SPK has developed a general policy in the course of the preparations for the Humboldt Forum. The inclusion of the societies of origin is a central part of it. Presentation of the cooperation

  5. "Bronze Age - Europe without borders". Scientific significance of the exhibition with artefacts from the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History that were removed during the war (20.06.2013)

    From 21 June to 8 September 2013, the exhibition "Bronze Age - Europe without Borders" will take place at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Its second stop will be at the State Historical Museum in Moscow from 15 October 2013 to 13 January 2014. The exhibition concept is the result of German-R

  6. Utopia Cultural Forum (18.08.2021)

    With an exhibition and event project, the St. Matthäus Foundation, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation are jointly exploring the history of ideas of the Kulturforum for the first time - on 26 August there will be a festive opening in the open air - in

  7. Natural stone, clay plaster walls, and a gigantic wooden roof structure (26.10.2020)

    The interior of the Humboldt Forum is coming along nicely. A generous grant from the Kuratorium Preussischer Kulturbesitz has made it possible to commission Wang Shu – one of the most significant architects in China today – to design the space for exhibiting Chinese imperial court art from the colle

  8. Utopia Cultural Forum: Unplace - place of longing - place of the future (26.08.2021)

    With an exhibition and event project, the St. Matthäus Foundation, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation are jointly exploring the history of ideas of the Kulturforum for the first time - on 26 August there will be a festive opening in the open air - in

  9. Why People Need Stones (26.05.2016)

    Pictures of the destruction of Palmyra, a world heritage site, have made the need for cultural heritage protection clear to all. Markus Hilgert, Director of the Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, is working on many fronts for the sustainable preservation of cultural heritage. On

  10. Ceremonial event "Loss and Restitution" on 30 October 2008, speech by Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and spokesman for the "German-Russian Museum Dialogue" (30.10.2008)

    - The spoken word prevails - Salutations, In the long shared history of Germany and Russia, the past 20th century was undoubtedly a special one with very dark but also brighter days. There was unimaginable suffering and inconceivable crimes that emanated from German soil and were committed in German