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Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, explains: "I am delighted with the decision of the Bundestag to include the remodelling of the Gemäldegalerie in the supplementary budget for 2012 and would like to thank Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann for his ef

With the "Vogel Phoenix", a richly illustrated reader, the SPK is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a look "from the outside" at the variety of themes and projects. Companions from the world of cultural policy, colleagues in the arts and sciences, in museums and libraries, friends and patrons, a

As part of a pilot project, the SPK will be researching the provenance of around a thousand human skulls from the former colony of German East Africa from the beginning of October. The project is based at the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin and is funded by t

A special exhibition of the Museum of Islamic Art of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Oriental Department of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Preußischer Kulturbesitz. From 14 July - 15 October 2017 at the Pergamonmuseum, Museum Island Berlin. Using outstanding manuscri

While the restitution of cultural objects is at the centre of the debate in Europe, completely different questions arise in their places of origin, which have to do with the friction between a global economy and regionally specific conditions, which in turn can be traced back to the colonial past. T

In connection with Turkey's demand for the return of the Sphinx of Hattusha, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, explains: "The Hittite sphinx from Bogazköy (Hattusha) has been the subject of demands for its return from Turkey since the 1930s. Since then, nothi

The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag decided at its review meeting on 13 November 2014 to make 200 million euros available to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation over the coming years for the construction of a new Museum of Modern Art on Potsdamer Strasse. The Pietzsch, Marx and Marzon

Recently, Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of the Republic of Egypt, sent a letter to Prof Dr Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, requesting the return of the bust of Nefertiti. The letter is not signed by the Prime Minist

Kunstgewerbemuseum and Kunstbibliothek der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin as well as Kunststiftung Sachsen-Anhalt and Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle to launch the rediscovery of the Bauhäusler in spring 2022 - Saxony-Anhalt's Minister of Culture Robra hands over funding decisio

The academy project "Turfan Research" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Museum of Asian Art - SMB (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) are partners in the EU project 'IDP-CREA The International Dunhuang Project - Cultural Routes of Eurasia Berlin, 17 September 2