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  1. Foundation Board clears the way for the return of the Ngonnso' to Cameroon (27.06.2022)

    Parzinger: Object is regarded by the Nso' as a mother deity and has great spiritual significance for the society of origin At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz authorised SPK President Hermann Parzinger to conclude an agreement with the relevant autho

  2. Inés de Castro will not be Collection Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art (13.02.2018)

    SPK President Parzinger regrets cancellation - We will soon present a new collection director Inés de Castro, Director of the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, will not become Director of the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin in the Humboldt

  3. Federal budget strengthens SPK (11.09.2024)

    Parzinger: Federal Government significantly strengthens the SPK - thanks to Claudia Roth The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will be significantly strengthened in the 2025 federal budget. SPK President Hermann Parzinger thanked Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth and her organisation: "

  4. Conference proceedings "Taking responsibility" have been published (11.06.2009)

    The newly published conference proceedings bring together the contributions to the international symposium organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property to mark the tenth anniversary of the Washington Principles in December 2008.

  5. Deep mourning for Werner Knopp (07.01.2019)

    Long-time President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation passes away at the age of 87 - Parzinger: He was the President of Unity The long-standing President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Werner Knopp, passed away on 4 January 2019 at the age of 87. Born in Braunschweig, he ha

  6. Benin bronzes: Agreement for repatriation still in 2022 (28.06.2022)

    SPK President Parzinger: Objects should be returned to Nigeria "as quickly as possible" - Long-term loans at the Humboldt Forum An agreement on the transfer of ownership and loans for the so-called Benin bronzes in the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin is to be

  7. SPK invites Prime Minister to the James-Simon-Galerie (21.03.2019)

    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

  8. The Humboldt Forum gains profile as an event venue (20.12.2010)

    Today, in the presence of Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann presented the new project manager Martin Heller and an international project team in the Altes Museum opposite the Schlossplatz, who will be developing a c

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation cancels Tehran exhibition (27.12.2016)

    Parzinger: Iran still not granting export licence for artworks - SPK committed to cultural dialogue The planned exhibition "The Tehran Collection. The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Berlin" at the Berlin Gemäldegalerie will now not be able to take place as planned. As the President of the Prus

  10. Modernity from Tehran comes to Berlin (21.10.2015)

    Steinmeier: We need the diplomacy of culture right now - Parzinger: Building bridges in conflict-ridden times One of the largest and most valuable collections of Western contemporary art has been hidden away for decades in the Iranian capital Tehran, and soon the top works from the French Impression