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  1. SPK Magazine

    SPK Magazine SPK Magazine reports on the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz in its full diversity. It offers an opportunity to speak to the people who address the numerous tasks of the Foundation with creativity and personal commitment and takes positions on issues of cultural policy. Heft 11 (2018)

  2. Restitution and Other Solutions

    Restitution and Other Solutions Several objects from the Ethnological Museum have already been restituted or repatriated. Returning an object is, however, only one of many possible solutions. These are worked out in dialogue with members of the societies of origin. Hermann Parzinger returns grave go

  3. The Cases Are Becoming More Complicated (03.12.2018)

    Hermann Parzinger on the results of the “20 Years of Washington Principles: Roadmap for the Future” international specialist conference Together with the German Lost Art Foundation and Kulturstiftung der Länder, the cultural foundation of the German states, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussi

  4. Long-lost gold tablet returns to the Museum of the Ancient Near East of the National Museums in Berlin (04.12.2013)

    Today in New York, a three-thousand-year-old gold tablet from Assur, which had been lost by the Museum of the Ancient Near East in the turmoil at the end of the war, was returned to the museum. The handover took place in Nassau County Surrogate's Court, presided over by Judge Edward W. McCarty. The

  5. Humboldt Lab Cabs - A journey into knowledge (26.08.2015)

    Climb into a Chinese rickshaw and find out more about the new Berlin Palace: Humboldt Lab Dahlem launches the "Humboldt Lab Cabs" at the Long Night of Museums on 29 August 2015 With the new Humboldt Lab Cabs, the Humboldt Lab Dahlem will familiarise citizens - but of course also visitors to the city

  6. German museums and exhibition centres still very well attended in 2017 - total number of museum visits increased by 2.2% year-on-year to 114,375,732 (14.12.2018)

    Museums in Germany reported a total of 114,375,732 visits in 2017. Compared to 2016, the number of visits is therefore 2,498,647 (+2.2%) higher than in the previous year (2016: 111,877,085 visits). German museums reported a total of 8,765 special exhibitions. The number of visits varied depending on

  7. How do you actually build for the cultural audience of tomorrow? (07.11.2019)

    Architecture summit on the "Blue Sofa": Sir David Chipperfield, Jacques Herzog, Regine Leibinger, HG Merz and Franco Stella in conversation with Vivian Perkovic - On 19 November 2019 from 7 pm in the new James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin's Museum Island - TV broadcast on 19 November 2019 from 11:10 pm o

  8. Wartime loss of the Berlin antiquities collection turns up at the Museum of Cultural History in Magdeburg (05.05.2020)

    Museum of Cultural History Magdeburg hands over ancient Greek vase to the Collection of Classical Antiquities of the National Museums in Berlin - Vase had been considered a war loss since 1945 - on display in Magdeburg until 17 May, then in the Altes Museum in Berlin The Museum of Cultural History M

  9. The "Karlsruhe Sketchbook" by Caspar David Friedrich remains in Germany (12.07.2024)

    Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden and Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz succeed in joint acquisition - thanks to Kulturstiftung der Länder and Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung The "Karlsruhe Sketchbook" by Caspar David Friedrich is staying in Germany! The Klassik Stiftung We

  10. Restitution to Freemasons – “Forgotten Victims of National Socialism” (27.06.2016)

    In June 2016, the Foundation returned 384 books to a Masonic lodge. The SPK has previously returned other works to these “forgotten victims” of National Socialism Speaking at the handover ceremony, Hermann Parzinger, President of the SPK, pointed out that: “It was not only Jews that were persecuted,