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In response to the press release issued by the Central Council of the African Community, the Initiative of Black People in Germany and the NGO alliances "No Humboldt 21!" and "Genocide is not time-barred!" on 17 March 2014: "Federal government plans to deport human remains from the colonial era", th

With today's ceremony, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is celebrating the arrival of Alexander von Humboldt's American Travel Diaries at the Berlin State Library in the presence of Klaus Wowereit, Governing Mayor of Berlin, Monika Grütters, Minister of State for Culture, and Johanna Wanka,

The winner of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship will conduct research at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) on the museum presentation of knowledge and, in close cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Museum für Naturkunde (MfN), will also provide new im

The archaeological and ethnological collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin also contain human remains. These include bones, some of which have entered the collection in processed form (e.g. in the case of ethnological artefacts such as bone flutes) and some in unprocessed form (e.g. archaeol

The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag decided at its review meeting on 13 November 2014 to make 200 million euros available to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation over the coming years for the construction of a new Museum of Modern Art on Potsdamer Strasse. The Pietzsch, Marx and Marzon

New museum complex will house the important holdings of the Nationalgalerie - ideas competition to deliver architectural concept and submit proposals for urban planning organisation The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is launching one of its most important new building projects. Over the next

On 4 September 2015, the odyssey of three manuscripts - two medieval and one modern - that once belonged to the library of Halberstadt Cathedral Grammar School ended with their return to the city of Halberstadt. The two medieval manuscripts were among the extensive holdings of books, newspapers, jou

Kuratorium Preussischer Kulturbesitz supports guided tour and workshop programme for children, families and adults. The National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation invite refugees in Berlin to familiarise themselves with selected museums and offer free guided tours and wo

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted eight works of art to the heirs of Felicia Lachmann-Mosse. The works were part of the extensive art collection that her father, the Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse, had built up since the 1880s. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation had come

To mark his 70th birthday, Friedrich Christian Flick has donated 104 works of contemporary art to the Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin. This is the second donation in just a few years. Flick had already donated 166 works to the museum in 2008. In addition to the d