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The German-American Exchange on Provenance Research will enter its third year after the upcoming autumn meeting in Munich. Interested parties can apply for 2019 until 28 September 2018. The "German-American Provenance Exchange Program for Museum Professionals (PREP)" is intended to help expand the m

Parzinger: Iran still not granting export licence for artworks - SPK committed to cultural dialogue The planned exhibition "The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin" at the Berlin Gemäldegalerie will now not be able to take place as planned. As the President of the Prus

Ownership of disputed collections will be transferred to a foundation under private law - SPK gives up objects as part of a compensation scheme - Parzinger: Museum visitors stand to gain the most from this agreement On 26 May 2025, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,

Germany and Russia have a long shared history, a history that is not only characterised by real political developments, but also to a large extent by close cultural ties and connections. Literature, music, theatre and the fine arts have had a profound and lasting mutual impact in both countries. Mus

With the support of the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz recently acquired a "Mother of God Enthroned" for the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. We invite you to the ceremonial handover in the Basilica of

Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, will be the new Co-Chairman of the Culture Working Group of the Petersburg Dialogue together with Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. He was elected to this office as the successor to Klaus

A few days ago, the gouache "Ash Wednesday Morning" by Adolph von Menzel was returned to Berlin. The work had been considered lost since the Second World War. A few years ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation became aware of its whereabouts in the Lithuanian Art Museum in Vilnius. In the co

The 50th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook has just been published, looking back on the year 2014. Internal and external authors address topics that concern the Foundation in numerous articles. In 2014, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie underwent a multi-year refurbishm

As part of a pilot project, the SPK has been researching the provenance of around a thousand human skulls from the former colony of German East Africa, which was located on the territory of the present-day countries of Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and Mozambique, since the beginning of October. The pro

German/American Provenance Research Exchange Programme (PREP) has come to an end: Transatlantic network has been established The German-American Exchange on Provenance Research in Museums, PREP for short, has come to an end in Washington. Museum experts from 25 German and American institutions speci