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  1. Restoration Day at the SPK on 19 October 2025 (30.09.2025)

    The European Restoration Day will take place for the eighth time on 19 October 2025. The SPK institutions will also be offering exclusive insights into studios and exhibitions Around 130 conservators work at the SPK to preserve the most valuable cultural assets - mostly behind the scenes. On Restora

  2. Results of provenance research on skulls from West Africa published – provenance research on nearly 600 skulls completed (22.04.2026)

    As part of a project launched in 2021, the Museum of Prehistory and Early History at the State Museums in Berlin has investigated the provenance of nearly 600 skulls from the former German colonies in West Africa, in collaboration with researchers from Togo and Cameroon. The findings of this project

  3. Max Hollein in conversation with Hermann Parzinger at the Neue Nationalgalerie on 18 November at 20:00 (12.11.2021)

    The Director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation talk about the Kulturforum and new challenges for museums after the pandemic Max Hollein was a child when his father, the architect Hans Hollein, was busy combining the Berlin Kulturf

  4. Parzinger: Collections at the heart of the Humboldt Forum Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presents itself at the Open Building Site Days (10.06.2015)

    According to the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, the topping-out ceremony for the new Berlin Palace and the open building site days are a good opportunity to promote the outstanding collections on the art and culture of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the America

  5. Workshop on the exhibition concept for the non-European collections at the Humboldt Forum successfully concluded (08.04.2011)

    The International Advisory Board Humboldt Forum met for the first time from 6 to 8 April 2011. The expert committee consists of around forty renowned museum experts and academics from all continents. Its purpose is to provide critical support for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's exhibitio

  6. Opening of the restoration department and handover of the Berlin collection inventories in Luanda (17.05.2022)

    On 17 May 2022, the Goethe-Institut Angola presented the translation of the complete, multi-volume object list of the Angola collection of the Ethnological Museum Berlin to the Angolan Ministry of Culture at a ceremony. In this way, the partners hope to contribute to greater transparency in the deba

  7. A missal from Novgorod returns to Russia (16.11.2015)

    Church Slavonic print from the 17th century was identified by provenance researchers at the State Library as a war loss from the Novgorod Museum - Parzinger hands over the work to his Russian colleagues at today's festive event to mark "10 Years of German-Russian Museum Dialogue" (DRMD) and underlin

  8. Priorities of the SPK in 2024 (10.04.2024)

    Annual reception at the James-Simon-Galerie - Parzinger: Outstanding visitor balance for 2023 - Attractive exhibition programme this year - Expansion of international collaborations - Reform on the home straight Over 200 guests from politics, culture, business, science and society attended the annua

  9. SPK returns human remains to Hawai'i (07.02.2022)

    On 11 February 2022, the SPK will hand over the human remains of 32 individuals to representatives of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). These have been in the care of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin since 2011. At the end of 2021, the SPK Board of Trustees

  10. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation presents its annual programme and plans for the future (28.04.2022)

    Annual reception 2022 in the James-Simon-Galerie - Parzinger: We have new strategic goals and are facing up to the great challenges of our time The institutions of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provide an insight into their annual programme and their plans for the future. As President He