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The 2021 Annual Report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has just been published. SPK President Hermann Parzinger writes in the editorial that the past twelve months have been characterised above all by "a longing for normality". Despite the pandemic-related impositions, many visitors onc

Ownership of all Berlin "Benin Bronzes" transferred to Nigeria - around a third of the works remain on loan in Berlin - further collaboration planned Today Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director General of the National Commissio

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

At the end of 2025, the Director of the Collection of Classical Antiquities at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Prof Dr Andreas Scholl, will retire after more than twenty years in office. He will be succeeded by his current deputy, Dr Martin Maischberger. This was decided unanimously by the SPK Foun

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned works from the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Alte Nationalgalerie to the heir of the collector Helmuth Meißner, who was expropriated in violation of the GDR constitution. The Dresden native's well-known and extensive art collection was

One year ago, the collector Erich Marx died at the age of 99. Around 200 invited guests honoured the great collector and patron today at a memorial service at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin, the museum whose creation and success Erich Marx had significantly supported with the

For the first time, the Indian public can experience the great artistic achievements of the ancient Mediterranean alongside the country's own cultural treasures. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) - "a museum of ideas" in Mumbai - is presenting ancient sculptures to mark 75 y

By the end of the year, the colonnades and the colonnade courtyard between the Old National Gallery and the Neues Museum will be extensively repaired and restored. Three domes destroyed during the war, which crowned three "little temples" on the banks of the Spree within the eastern row of columns,

The SPK's museums, libraries and archives have been closed to the public for more than a month. The first steps towards reopening will be taken from 4 May 2020: In the State Library, the Ibero-American Institute and the State Institute for Music Research, media can once again be collected and return

Welcome! Museum club for children and young people from Ukraine at Haus Bastian receives follow-up funding of 50,000 euros from Berliner Sparkasse - continuation of successful work possible until summer 2026 - offer to be expanded to include free workshops for adults and families from refugee accomm