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  1. Foundation Board clears the way for the return of the Ngonnso' to Cameroon (27.06.2022)

    Parzinger: Object is regarded by the Nso' as a mother deity and has great spiritual significance for the society of origin At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz authorised SPK President Hermann Parzinger to conclude an agreement with the relevant autho

  2. Top researcher for Berlin's museum heritage: successful application for multi-million Humboldt Professorship (23.10.2014)

    Sharon Jeanette Macdonald has been nominated for Germany's most highly endowed research award: the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH). The prize money amounts to five

  3. Annual reception and focal points of the SPK in 2026 (27.02.2026)

    Annual reception at the James-Simon-Galerie - Ackermann: We offer a strong programme and face challenges - good visitor balance 2025 - focus on educational and mediation work Almost 300 guests from politics, culture, science, business, tourism and society attended the annual reception of the Prussia

  4. Humboldt Lab Dahlem enters the finale: Minister of State for Culture Grütters takes stock - Closing week from 13 to 18 October (13.10.2015)

    Berlin, 7 October 2015 - The Humboldt Lab Dahlem is coming to an end after four years. You can still visit the final exhibition of the project, which was jointly realised by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, at the Dahlem Museums until 18 October.

  5. SPK restitutes three Kogi objects (10.02.2025)

    Her Excellency Yadir Salazar Mejía, Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia, and Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, today signed an agreement on the transfer of ownership of three ritual artefacts from the Kogi. They had been on loan to the SPK in Bogota since October 2024. The foundation had a

  6. German-French cooperation launched at the IAI: Kickoff for the TRANSUR research project (30.04.2026)

    The first meeting between the research coordinators, Dr. Wiebke Keim and Dr. Clara Ruvituso on April 20th, as well as the kick-off meeting on April 21, 2026, at the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut (IAI, Ibero-American Institute), mark the launch of the Franco-German research project “TRANSUR: Transfor

  7. SPK intensifies cooperation with Colombia (30.10.2024)

    Kogi ritual artefacts to be united in Colombia - SPK Ethnological Museum intensifies cooperation with indigenous community and the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History The Ethnological Museum of the SPK is intensifying its collaboration with the Colombian ICANH (Instituto Colombiano de An

  8. Continuation of the collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution and SPK in the field of provenance research (20.02.2025)

    Creating structures for a young field of research - sharing knowledge worldwide. Collaboration, innovation and sustainability are at the centre of the renewed partnership for provenance research on Asian art The National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institut

  9. On the death of Stephan Waetzoldt (28.05.2008)

    Prof. Dr Stephan Waetzoldt died on 25 May 2008 at the age of 88. He was General Director of the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz from 1965 to 1983. With foresight and skill, he turned the museums in West Berlin, scarred by the division of the city and its collections, back into a cornersto

  10. "museum4punkt0": Sub-project Migration Museum 4.0 (08.05.2017)

    "museum4punkt0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future" starts today. The Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven is involved with the sub-project "Migration Museum 4.0". The German Emigration Centre Bremerhaven is Germany's only migration museum: it presents both the history of German overseas migrat