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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

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has acquired Alexander von Humboldt's American Travel Diaries. Written partly in German and partly in French during his great voyage of discovery through Central and South America between 1799 and 1804, these unique and internationally highly significant his

Five public cultural institutions join the Berlin Declaration on Open Access and publish their conditions with the best practice recommendation. On 19 November 2013, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg, the Federal Archives,

The completely redesigned and updated website of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (www.preussischer-kulturbesitz.de) went online today. The launch marks an important step towards improving the Foundation's public image. The SPK's tasks and activities are now more tangible than ever before:

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Egyptian Ministry of State for Antiquities as well as the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities have decided to co-operate more closely in future. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and Mohamed Ibrahim Ali, M

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today handed over a historical Tric-Trac game to the Dresden State Art Collections. The piece was one of the artefacts that were relocated to the USSR during the war and returned to the GDR in 1958. At the time, it was mistakenly given to the East Berlin Mus

Foundation President Hermann Parzinger and Markus Hilgert, Director of the Museum of the Museum of the Ancient Near East, hand over 2600 year old inscription to the Iraqi ambassador Photo opportunity: 2 November 2015, 10 a.m., at the Archaeological Centre In view of the systematic destruction of cul

The International Council of Museums (ICOM) has drawn up an emergency red list for Iraq to alert law enforcement and customs authorities, as well as collectors and dealers worldwide, to illegally traded cultural artefacts from this country. Such red lists contain examples of object types and categor

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned a work from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heiress of art collector Dr Fritz Haussmann. However, the allegorical drawing of the 18th century architect Jean Baptiste Broebes will remain in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which acquired it f