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  1. 10 MUSEUMS X 10 CONCERTS - Chamber Concerts of the DSO with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (12.09.2024)

    Start of the new series on Fri, 13 Sept. at the Museum of European Cultures Unique concerts by selected ensembles of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in unique venues of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) - that's what 10 MUSEEN X 10 KONZERTE offers. Since 2010, the DSO and th

  2. Museums are popular - and important economic location factors (12.12.2024)

    Another rise in visitor numbers to German museums and exhibition centres - And: ongoing study by the Institute for Museum Research shows that public funding invested in museums has doubled Museums and exhibition centres in Germany continue to enjoy increasing popularity. This is shown by the overall

  3. SPK restitutes Chinese ridge turret figure to the heirs of Eduard Fuchs (06.12.2024)

    Restitution of Nazi-looted property to descendants of the politically persecuted writer Eduard Fuchs - Chinese object from the Ethnological Museum handed over The SPK has today restituted a Chinese ridge turret figure from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin t

  4. ECHY 2018: How Culture Can Save Europe (19.12.2016)

    European Cultural Heritage Year 2018 (ECHY) aims to increase the awareness and visibility of culture as a unifying element in Europe. On December 19, 2016, the project's five ambassadors presented it to the public. One of them was Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesit

  5. 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

  6. Conference "Cultural property in danger: looted excavations and illegal trade" (11.11.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute and the German Association for Archaeology are organising an international conference in Berlin on 11 and 12 December in cooperation with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Federal Forei

  7. Works of "Degenerate Art" believed lost recovered from Berlin bomb rubble (08.11.2010)

    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

  8. Acquisition of the private collection of drawings: The "Kleine Klebeband" of the Princes of Waldburg-Wolfegg (07.10.2011)

    A major acquisition by the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, the Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung and the Free State of Bavaria, supported by the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Rudolf-August Oetker Stiftung f

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation continues cooperation with Georgian partners / Ceremony at the Bode Museum (28.05.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has maintained close relations with Georgia for many years. A highlight of the cooperation to date was the EU Twinning project carried out with the Georgian National Museum between 2010 and 2012. Over the next few years, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will b

  10. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation finds another fair and equitable solution with the heirs of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (20.04.2016)

    Following an initial restitution in 2012, works from the collection of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (1879 - 1943) were recently identified again at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Prof Glaser, museum director and art collector, lost his position in 1933 due to his Jewish descent and emigrated. The