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The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted two medieval predella panels from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin to the heirs of the Jewish entrepreneur Harry Fuld Sr. The museums had acquired the two panels from an art dealer in 1940. The panels that were previously exhi

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) will appeal to the United States Supreme Court to dismiss the action for the return of the Guelph Treasure on the grounds that the American courts lack jurisdiction. - English version: please find PDF below German text - The Guelph Treasure is a collec

Thorsten Strauß, Global Head of Art, Culture & Sports at Deutsche Bank AG, continues to head the Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage. He was unanimously confirmed as Chairman last week and was already involved in the previous Museum Island Board of Trustees. Anne Reidt, Head of the Cultu

The lawsuit against the SPK for the return of the Guelph Treasure was allowed by the U.S. Court of Appeals, but dismissed against the Federal Republic of Germany. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will now examine further options. In February 2015, a lawsuit for the return of the Guelph Trea

Humboldt Forum, James-Simon-Galerie, the interim building for the Pergamon Museum, Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden, debates about the Bauakademie: the centre of Berlin is changing. A new magazine looks at the present and future of the historically evolved centre. Under the new title "SPK - Das Mag

Parzinger thanks for decades of commitment: "We are cultural federalism in action" On Thursday, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, invited the Minister Presidents of the German federal states to a tour of the new James Simon Gallery on Berlin's Museum Isla

Foundation restituted over 350 works of art and more than 2000 books - Magazine shows in reports, interviews and portraits how the provenance of objects is researched and how fair and equitable solutions are found Washington was a revolution". This is how US diplomat Stuart Eizenstat describes the c

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and University of Oxford sign Memorandum of Understanding to deepen strategic partnership The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will work more closely with the University of Oxford in the areas of conservation, digitisation, research, exhibitions and visitor

The SPK's museums, libraries and archives have been closed to the public for more than a month. The first steps towards reopening will be taken from 4 May 2020: In the State Library, the Ibero-American Institute and the State Institute for Music Research, media can once again be collected and return

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has agreed with the heirs of the artist Hans Purrmann on the restitution of a work from the National Museums' Picture Gallery. Purrmann had sold the fragment of a painting by Hans Baldung Grien in 1937 due to his difficult situation as a "degenerate" artist.