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In February 2015, a U.S. federal district court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C., for the return of the Guelph Treasure (Philipp and Stiebel v. Federal Republic of Germany and Stiftung Preußischer Cultural Heritage). The SPK is of the opinion that this action

Valuable faience stele resurfaced in Michigan after seventy years during research work / Parzinger thanks American museum for great gesture A valuable Egyptian object that recently returned to Berlin can be seen again in the Neues Museum on Museum Island from mid-June. The upper part of a faience st

The Museum of European Cultures of the National Museums in Berlin will be represented with a showcase in the future Humboldt Forum. The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, welcomed the plans of the State of Berlin to seek co-operation with the successful Dahlem

Today, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage, handed over 384 volumes from the former library of the Masonic Lodge to Matthias Bohn, a member of the board of the St John's Lodge "Teutonia zur Weisheit" in Potsdam. The books were identified

The painting "Dragoner-Regiment von Borke Nr 7" (1864) by Friedrich Wilhelm Meyerheim was kept in the Nationalgalerie as so-called foreign property and was also published as such. In the course of research by the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM), it has now been clearly identified as belonging to

The "Haus Bastian" on Kupfergraben, built by David Chipperfield, will become the "Reinhold Würth Centre for Cultural Education and Mediation in Haus Bastian" of the National Museums in Berlin. A generous donation from entrepreneur and collector Reinhold Würth and an equally generous offer from the B

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is of the opinion that the action for the return of the Guelph Treasure is unfounded and cannot be brought before a U.S. court. - English version: please find PDF below German text - In February of this year, a lawsuit for the return of the Guelph Treasure w

Thorsten Strauß, Global Head of Art, Culture & Sports at Deutsche Bank AG, continues to head the Board of Trustees of Prussian Cultural Heritage. He was unanimously confirmed as Chairman last week and was already involved in the previous Museum Island Board of Trustees. Anne Reidt, Head of the Cultu

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has handed over nine manuscripts to the German Historical Museum Foundation (DHM) that were in the Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage. The military-historical works belonged to the armoury library until the armoury was dissolved and were trans

The European Cultural Heritage Summit under the motto "Sharing Heritage - Sharing Values" is Europe's largest event in the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018. The Summit - supported by the European Union, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Berlin Senate Depart