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  1. "German-Russian Library Initiative": First concrete projects to jointly research and make accessible book collections from German and Russian libraries that were relocated as a result of the war. (06.10.2009)

    On 23 September 2009, on the initiative of the Rudomino Library for Foreign Literature and the Berlin State Library, German and Russian librarians met in Moscow for a round table discussion in order to strengthen professional cooperation and exchange between German and Russian libraries and also to

  2. Hermann Parzinger receives "Order of Friendship" of the Russian Federation (04.11.2009)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, was presented with the "Order of Friendship" by Russian President Medvedev at a ceremony in the Kremlin in Moscow today. This highest Russian honour for foreign citizens was awarded to him in recognition of his outstanding sc

  3. Hermann Parzinger inducted into the Order Pour le mérite (13.07.2011)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, was elected as a new member at this year's assembly of the Order Pour le mérite for Sciences and Arts. The ceremonial induction into the Order will take place at its public annual meeting in 2012 in the presence of the Federa

  4. Hermann Parzinger receives the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (25.09.2012)

    On 4 October, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, will receive the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. The award is presented to him personally by Federal President Joachim Gauck. In its tribute, the Office o

  5. Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Naryshkin meets SPK President Parzinger at the end of the Year of the Cross (02.07.2013)

    As part of his visit to Berlin to mark the end of the cross year Russia Year in Germany / Germany Year in Russia, the Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey E. Naryshkin, in his capacity as Chairman of the Russian Historical Society, visited the President of the Prussian Cultura

  6. International conference on Nazi-looted art (11.12.2008)

    To mark the tenth anniversary of the "Principles of the Washington Conference with Respect to Nazi-Confiscated Art", the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and the Koordinierungsstelle für Kulturgutverluste are organising an international symposium today and tomorrow entitled "Taking Responsibility.

  7. SPK - The magazine shows the new centre of Berlin (20.06.2018)

    Humboldt Forum, James-Simon-Galerie, the interim building for the Pergamon Museum, Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden, debates about the Bauakademie: the centre of Berlin is changing. A new magazine looks at the present and future of the historically evolved centre. Under the new title "SPK - Das Mag

  8. Significant donation of contemporary Mexican prints to the IAI (22.03.2012)

    The Ibero-American Institute (IAI) received a valuable collection of contemporary prints and a sculpture from the Mexican Embassy as a generous donation from the Mexican government. The portfolio entitled "Estampas, independencia y revolución" (Prints, Independence and Revolution) brings together a

  9. Cameroonian Commission for Restitution visits Ethnological Museum (18.10.2023)

    Three members of the recently established Cameroon Restitution Commission (Comité interministériel chargé du rapatriement des biens culturels illégalement exportés à l'étranger au Ministère fédéral des Affaires étrangères) visited the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin on 16 and 1

  10. 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