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Foundation Board appoints reform commission to restructure the SPK – roadmap by the end of November On August 19, the Board of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) gave detailed consideration to the recommendations made by the governmental Science Council as

On February 11, 2022, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) will hand over 32 ancestral remains to a representative of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA). The ancestral remains have been in the keeping of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin since 2011. A

Vaccines save lives – and culture. The Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will be offering vaccinations at the Kulturforum museum foyer from January 20 to 23, 2022. The SPK will be partnering with Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH to host a four-day pop-up vaccination center at the Kulturforum (Matthäikirchplatz).

It is with deep sorrow that the SPK announces the death of its former Vice President at the age of 89. Peter Hofmann, former Vice President of the SPK, died in Berlin at the end of August. He was 89 years old. Hofmann worked for the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foun

SPK will return human bones in a bark coffin and two mummified children’s bodies currently kept in the Ethnologisches Museum to Australia. Since 2011, Australia has followed a policy that supports Indigenous Australians in recovering and returning their ancestral remains from abroad. In February 202

SPK president reacts to media reports that Nigeria’s departing President Buhari has transferred ownership of all objects to Oba Ewuare II, the successor to the kings of Benin. Last December, Foreign Minister Baerbock and the Federal Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Claudia Roth, returned the

SPK will return two mummified heads (Toi moko) of tattooed Māori men from the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum to New Zealand. In 2003, the government of New Zealand mandated that the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa repatriate Māori human remains to New Zealand. Hermann Parzinger, Pr

New board chairperson: Helen Müller replaces Thorsten Strauß Thorsten Strauß, who has been active on the Prussian Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees for thirteen years and has served as its chairperson since 2014, is stepping down. He is leaving Deutsche Bank, which he represented on the board, to

13.06.2018 Much More Than a Partnership of Convenience Article Is there a common European identity? If so, what exactly does that mean when it comes to politics and culture? Hermann Parzinger, president of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK) and also t

What is the Guelph Treasure? Article The Guelph Treasure is a former medieval church treasure named after the House of Guelph, which owned it since 1671. Forty-four of the former 82 objects are now owned by the SPK. What is now known as the Guelph Treasure was the reliquary treasure of the former co