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For some years now, the handling of non-European objects and their history has been the subject of public debate. In the course of intensified provenance research in all collections and also in preparation for the presentation in the Humboldt Forum, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is now p

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over two paintings from the former armoury collection to the German Historical Museum The German Historical Museum has received two paintings from the collections of the Zeughaus back from the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today handed over a historical Tric-Trac game to the Dresden State Art Collections. The piece was one of the artefacts that were relocated to the USSR during the war and returned to the GDR in 1958. At the time, it was mistakenly given to the East Berlin Mus

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned a work from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heiress of art collector Dr Fritz Haussmann. However, the allegorical drawing of the 18th century architect Jean Baptiste Broebes will remain in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which acquired it f

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation looks back on a quarter of a century of its reunited collections. Between 1991 and 1992, the libraries, archives and museums brought together what had been divided for four and a half decades. To mark the anniversary, the SPK magazine tells the story of the

The Royal Numismatic Society (London) has awarded Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge, former Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin, its Medal of Honour. Andrew Burnett, President of the Royal Numismatic Society and former Director of the Coin Cabinet of the British Museum, presented the m

The Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin recently handed over 43 ink drawings by Josef Hegenbarth (1884-1962) to the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD). The drawings had come to the Staatliche Museen in East Berlin in 1958 as part of the repatriation of artworks from the Sovi

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recovered a valuable Etruscan bronze statuette that was thought to have been lost since the Second World War. The depiction of a spear-throwing man with a helmet, which had been part of the antiquities collection since 1869, was recently identified in th

Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz supports the magazine, which will be included in the next few days in the magazines "Cicero" and "Monopol" and in January also in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its National Museums in Berlin are publishing a magaz

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