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Eleven works that belonged to Margarete Oppenheim's collection until 1936 were identified in the Kunstgewerbemuseum and the Skulpturensammlung of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. A fair and equitable solution based on the Washington Principles was found for the works, which came to the museums via d

As part of a pilot project, the SPK has been researching the provenance of around a thousand human skulls from the former colony of German East Africa, which was located on the territory of the present-day countries of Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi and Mozambique, since the beginning of October. The pro

The Bastian family will hand over the gallery building designed by David Chipperfield at Kupfergraben 10 to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation next year. It will be used in future as a centre for cultural education and will bear the name "Haus Bastian der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußi

In order to familiarise pupils from year 9 onwards with the handling of historical source material, the Secret State Archives PK has developed an "archive case" with written examples from different eras in a three-year cooperation with the "Schule an der Haveldüne" in Berlin-Spandau. From September,

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is returning nine works from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin to the heirs of the Jewish entrepreneur and collector Eugen Moritz Buchthal. One of them, the etching "Fehmarnhäuser mit großem Baum" (1908) by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, is

"East Prussian folios" and "Schriftkunst" receive protection The Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage will receive funding of 50,000 euros to protect the "East Prussian Folios" from the "Special Programme 2017 for the Preservation of the Written Cultural Heritage" of Minister of State

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

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation sees positive developments following the amendment to the Cultural Property Protection Act, which came into force a year ago. The new law was the first to ban the import of antiquities without an official export licence from the country of origin, something

According to its President Hermann Parzinger, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will permanently commemorate the National Socialists' defamatory and denunciatory "Degenerate Art" campaign. Exactly 80 years ago today, on 19 July 1937, the associated propaganda exhibition was opened in Munich.

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