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  1. Antiquities return (15.07.2019)

    Dresden and Berlin antiquities collections discover pieces from each other's collections - foreign property exchanged In recent years, the clarification of war losses and objects held in the collections as foreign property has been the subject of research projects at the antiquities collections in B

  2. Guelph Treasure restitution proceedings: Update (12.07.2019)

    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. In February 2015, a lawsuit for the return of the Guelph Treasure was filed against th

  3. New appointments to the Board of Trustees: Alexis von Poser becomes Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin (04.07.2019)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, unanimously decided on Tuesday that Dr Alexis von Poser should take over the position of Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art. The Ethnologi

  4. On the way to a vibrant research campus (04.07.2019)

    Potential analysis of the Dahlem museum site presented: Campus axis, bundling of research resources, specialised library The museum complex in Berlin-Dahlem is to be expanded into a research campus in the coming years. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the National Museums in Berlin have

  5. SPK appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Guelph Treasure restitution proceedings (21.06.2019)

    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

  6. From 2020: Schinkel in the Friedrichswerder Church (11.10.2019)

    Friedrichswerder Church reopens its doors - open days after years of renovation work - presentation of the Alte Nationalgalerie from next year The renovation of the Friedrichswerder Church designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel has been completed. From the second quarter of 2020, the Prussian Cultural

  7. Recovery of four miniatures from the Loewe Collection for the Alte Nationalgalerie (10.10.2019)

    The SPK was recently able to recover four works of art for the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin that had been thought lost. They belong to a collection of 219 miniatures that Berlin city councillor Loewe had bequeathed to the museum in 1897. The four works have now turned up on the

  8. Hamburger Bahnhof: Contract with Friedrich Christian Flick Collection ends in September 2021 (24.04.2020)

    Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and Staatliche Museen zu Berlin deeply regret the termination - Parzinger: 17 years of outstanding cooperation have made Hamburger Bahnhof a hotspot of contemporary art - Eissenhauer: Friedrich Christian Flick has also rendered outstanding services to the Staatlich

  9. Sample Procedure German Digital Library (13.09.2021)

    Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe hears case on framing technology After the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued its judgement in the preliminary ruling proceedings (case no.: C-392/19) on the interpretation of the term "communication to the public" under copyright law at the beginning of Mar

  10. The Secret State Archives PK opens: New website more user-friendly and up-to-date, reading room accessible again (12.05.2020)

    New layout, new structure, new content - the website of the Secret State Archives PK has been completely relaunched / Research room reopened to users on 14 May 2020 Following the recent amendment to the Berlin SARS-CoV-2 Containment Measures Ordinance, archives are now also allowed to reopen. The Se