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  1. The "Rubensohn Library" of Elephantine: 4000 years of ancient Egyptian cultural history on papyri are now online (20.05.2015)

    A new research database makes the so-called "Rubensohn Library" of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin accessible. As part of a research project, a total of around 800 documents have been restored and scientifically analysed over the past two years. As of tod

  2. ILLICID project investigates illegal trade in cultural property in Germany (10.04.2015)

    The kick-off meeting for the ILLICID research project took place today at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin with international participation. Over the next three years, ILLICID will use dark field research to gather information on the illegal trade in cultural artefacts in Germany.

  3. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and Berlin collectors welcome the decision of the Bundestag Budget Committee on the extension to the Neue Nationalgalerie / Parzinger: A brilliant act with a great impact on the future (13.11.2014)

    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

  4. Conference "Cultural property in danger: looted excavations and illegal trade" (11.11.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the German Archaeological Institute and the German Association for Archaeology are organising an international conference in Berlin on 11 and 12 December in cooperation with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Federal Forei

  5. Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage established: Leading companies support the work of the foundation (31.10.2014)

    In future, a new funding body will support the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation as a partner: the Prussian Cultural Heritage Board of Trustees. The association of leading German commercial enterprises will provide financial support for SPK projects and assist the Foundation in the realisation o

  6. Ingolf Kern takes over as Head of the Media and Communications Department of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (26.09.2014)

    On 1 October 2014, the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will establish a new Media and Communications Department. The 48-year-old journalist Ingolf Kern will take over as head. Kern was previously spokesman for the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation for five years and editor in charge o

  7. Handing over the keys to the Friedrichshagen storage facility of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (30.06.2014)

    Today the keys were handed over for the first building at the SPK's new storage location, the Friedrichshagen storage magazine. In attendance were Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Günter Winands, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner fo

  8. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns archives to the Diksmuide City Archives (Belgium) (06.06.2014)

    On Monday, 9 June 2014, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, will hand over 17 archive boxes containing valuable late medieval and early modern documents to the Diksmuide City Archives. The archival documents were discovered during a re-cataloguing of the docume

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation continues cooperation with Georgian partners / Ceremony at the Bode Museum (28.05.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has maintained close relations with Georgia for many years. A highlight of the cooperation to date was the EU Twinning project carried out with the Georgian National Museum between 2010 and 2012. Over the next few years, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will b

  10. New Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage published (16.05.2014)

    The recently published, comprehensive 48th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook looks back on 2012, the year in which both the new General Reading Room of the State Library in the Unter den Linden building and the Archaeological Centre were completed. Also documented are the openings of