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The international conference "Cultural Property in Danger: Looted Excavations and Illegal Trade" begins this Thursday at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. The two-day meeting of experts from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, Mexico, Greece and Germany is being organised by the Prussian Cu

Dr des. Andrea Schlosser was awarded this year's Ernst Waldschmidt Prize for her dissertation "On the Bodhisattva Path in Gandhāra. Edition of Fragment 4 and 11 from the Bajaur Collection of Kharoṣṭhī Manuscripts". The prize, endowed with 5,000 euros, is awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation a

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe are working together to clarify the provenance of Oskar Kokoschka's painting "Pariser Platz in Berlin". The Commission represents the family of Anna Caspari, a respected art dealer in Munich, who was deported from

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

The Advisory Commission, which is chaired by Prof Dr Jutta Limbach and deals with issues relating to the restitution of cultural assets seized as a result of Nazi persecution, today recommended that the so-called Welfenschatz from the Museum of Decorative Arts of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Found

In order to curb the illegal trade in antiquities from Iraq and Syria, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and UNESCO will work more closely together in future. A cooperation agreement to this effect has now been signed. The cooperation will focus on awareness-raising measures (as part of the

Shortly after the Bonn Declaration on the protection of endangered cultural sites on the occasion of the 39th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, the new SPK magazine reports on the threats to cultural treasures worldwide. "Our cultural heritage has been under threat for five years now.

Berlin, 7 October 2015 - The Humboldt Lab Dahlem is coming to an end after four years. You can still visit the final exhibition of the project, which was jointly realised by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, at the Dahlem Museums until 18 October.

Long-standing Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin passes away at the age of 81 - Parzinger: architect of the museum landscape in reunified Berlin Wolf-Dieter Dube, the long-serving Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, has died. He died in Berlin on Wednesday at the age

Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over two paintings from the former armoury collection to the German Historical Museum The German Historical Museum has received two paintings from the collections of the Zeughaus back from the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer