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After years spent moving the collections of the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, they are finally on show in the heart of Berlin, with an additional focus on their colonial contexts. Together with Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Minister of State for Culture Moni

A design competition has been launched for the overhaul and extension of the Gipsformerei of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The brief calls for a preliminary design that is sustainable, functional and architecturally compelling. On January 25, 2022, the Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (Fede

Books from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and SLUB Dresden have been returned to the descendants of French politician Georges Mandel The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK) and the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (S

The Korean Cultural Center in Germany and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz have signed an agreement that includes funding for a curator's position. The focus lies on research into the Korean collection of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The funds will go to

Following the completion of provenance research on skulls from German East Africa, an extensive report on the pilot project has now been published. “We are prepared to restitute these remains immediately, and we are waiting for signals from the countries of origin,” says SPK President Hermann Parzin

Working with collections: the Freie Universität Berlin and the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz enter into a strategic partnership. This is of crucial importance to the Dahlem Research Campus. Multimedia collections lie at the focus of the strategic partnership between the Freie Universität Berlin

Objects travel from Berlin to Namibia – long-term, collaborative research process with cultural heritage communities, artists and scientists 23 objects from the collection of the Ethnologisches Museum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin will travel to Namibia on May 27 as part of the collaborative re

On November 17, 2022, construction work began on a replica of the magnificent eastern gateway of Sanchi in front of the Humboldt Forum. On the Lustgarten side of the Humboldt Forum, construction is currently under way on a replica of the magnificent eastern gate of Sanchi. Situated at a spot clearly

New Presentation in the Humboldt Forum The exhibitions by the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Asian Art Museum) in the Humboldt Forum will incorporate multiple perspectives. The topic of colonial injustice will also be addressed. Visualization of the

The "Benin bronzes" officially belong to Nigeria again. About a third of the transferred objects will remain on loan in Berlin and will be exhibited in the Humboldt Forum. On 25 august 2022, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), and Abba Isa Tijani, Director Ge