Press Releases - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz

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• "Lepsius - the German expedition to the Nile" - A presentation by the National Museums in Berlin at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo

  30.10.2006 - The Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, together with the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage in cooperation with the…

• Gift from the Bode descendants for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

  18.10.2006 - One day after the grand opening of the Bode Museum, the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin received a special gift today: Wilhelm von Bode's great-grandchildren from Germany and…

• Speech by the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Klaus-Dieter Lehmann on the occasion of the opening of the Bode Museum

  17.10.2006 - Ladies and Gentlemen,When Kaiser Wilhelm II opened the museum on 18 October 1904, it was a rainy day, with uniforms, gowns and medal necklaces providing the colourful…

• The reconstruction of Berlin's Museum Island is making strong progress

  12.10.2006 - The opening of the splendidly renovated and technically modernised Bode Museum next week (first day of opening on Thursday) is another milestone in the restoration of the museum…

• East Asia Department of the Berlin State Library with new director

  01.08.2006 - At the end of July, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appointed Matthias Kaun, 38, as Head of the East Asia Department of the Berlin State Library.…

• Two long-lost works by Adolph Menzel return to the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett

  10.07.2006 - The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today received back two major gouache paintings by the Berlin artist Adolph von Menzel (1815-1905), which were thought to have been…

• Four Baroque paintings returned from the Berlin Picture Gallery

  03.07.2006 - Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returned four paintings from the 18th century. The paintings were handed over to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin for restoration in…

• More than sixty years after the end of the war, a Florentine Mannerist portrait of a lady finds its way back to Berlin

  31.05.2006 - The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe have good news to announce: A small-format Florentine Mannerist painting that went missing in…

• Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes books from the Leo Baeck Collection

  16.05.2006 - The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation was recently able to hand over seventeen books and brochures from the lost private library of Leo Baeck to his granddaughter Marianne C.…

• Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes manuscripts from the music library of Arthur Rubinstein

  05.05.2006 - Today, the Foundation has handed over a collection of 71 pieces of music from the former estate of the pianist Arthur Rubinstein to his four children. The fate of this collection…

• Foundation stone laid for the Central Reading Room of the Berlin State Library

  24.04.2006 - The foundation stone for the central reading room of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden is being laid today in the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann…

• German-Russian working group prepares exhibition of looted art

  07.04.2006 - Today sees the end of a working session lasting several days at the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History to prepare the German-Russian exhibition "Merovingian Period -…

• Construction progress at the Neues Museum

  16.03.2006 - Construction work on the Neues Museum, the war-damaged building by August Stüler (begun as the second building on Museum Island in 1843 and opened in 1859), which has survived as a…

• Starting signal for the refurbishment and extension of the Pergamonmuseum

  27.02.2006 - With a unanimous decision by the representatives of the federal government and the state of Berlin on the board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the future design of…

• The Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage and what is collected there for state bankruptcy

  21.02.2006 - Whether the institution also stands for secrecy and concealment will soon become clear. Quite secret, on the other hand, and very publicly, the Secret State Archives of Prussian…

• Lehmann becomes honorary professor at Humboldt University

  21.02.2006 - Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, has been appointed Honorary Professor of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University in…

• Annual press conference 2006

  24.01.2006 - On 24 January 2006, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects,…

• Lehmann on the library co-operation between Berlin and Munich

  18.01.2006 - The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, whose area of responsibility includes the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, welcomes the concrete form…

• Germany's oldest music competition: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Prizes 2006 awarded

  17.01.2006 - This highly regarded competition for young musicians is organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in cooperation with Germany's state music academies and is awarded to…

• Statement by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation on the dpa report of 3 January 2006: Norwegian sells Munch painting from "degenerate art"

  03.01.2006 - After the book burnings of 10 May 1933, the National Socialist German state's plundering of modern art in "museums and publicly accessible collections" under the euphemistic slogan…