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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,

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

With its numerous scientific and cultural institutions, Berlin sets the standard for new developments in the digital world. Modern information and communication technologies, embedded systems and the "Internet of Things" are opening up new opportunities for Berlin as a "city of the future". As part

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation looks back on a quarter of a century of its reunited collections. Between 1991 and 1992, the libraries, archives and museums brought together what had been divided for four and a half decades. To mark the anniversary, the SPK magazine tells the story of the

The Royal Numismatic Society (London) has awarded Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge, former Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin, its Medal of Honour. Andrew Burnett, President of the Royal Numismatic Society and former Director of the Coin Cabinet of the British Museum, presented the m

10 years of the German-Russian Museum Dialogue (DRMD): around two hundred directors and curators of Russian and German museums affected by war-related losses will meet in Berlin on 16 and 17 November to deepen their long-standing cooperation and discuss new projects. We cordially invite you to the f

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

The sculpture "Victoria of Calvatone" from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, which had been missing since the end of the war and was on display in the Altes Museum on Berlin's Museum Island until 1939, has resurfaced in Russia in the course of scientific research. This emerges from a r