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  1. US proceedings concerning the Guelph Treasure: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation files motion to dismiss lawsuit (30.10.2015)

    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

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over Meyerheim painting to the German Historical Museum (30.05.2016)

    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

  3. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation finds another fair and equitable solution with the heirs of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (20.04.2016)

    Following an initial restitution in 2012, works from the collection of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (1879 - 1943) were recently identified again at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Prof Glaser, museum director and art collector, lost his position in 1933 due to his Jewish descent and emigrated. The

  4. Agreement between the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the heirs of the Mosse family on sculpture confiscated as a result of persecution (01.12.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned the sculpture "Susanna" by Reinhold Begas to the heirs of Felicia Lachmann-Mosse. The work will initially remain on loan to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It is currently on display in the rotunda on the second exhibition floor of the Alte N

  5. Parzinger: Museum of European Cultures will be represented with a showcase in the Humboldt Forum (18.07.2016)

    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

  6. Urgently needed funds approved: Parzinger thanks the Budget Committee and Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters (14.11.2016)

    State Library's acquisition budget increases - Pergamon Museum construction schedule secured - Plaster moulding shop to be expanded - Museum 4.0 launched At the end of last week, the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag approved additional funding for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. T

  7. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes 384 books from the Berlin State Library to the Potsdam St John's Lodge "Teutonia zur Weisheit" (23.06.2016)

    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

  8. "museum4punkt0": Sub-project cultural heritage Fastnacht digital (08.05.2017)

    "museum4punkt0 - Digital strategies for the museum of the future" starts today. The carnival museums are involved with the sub-project "Digital carnival heritage". The museums working together in this sub-project deal with the cultural heritage of the Swabian-Alemannic carnival, which is part of the

  9. Found in the United States: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recovers Egyptian stele that had been lost since the Second World War (30.05.2017)

    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

  10. What are the "beauties" of the Neues Museum? Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation at the Federal Foreign Office's "Moving People" forum (06.04.2016)

    From 13 to 15 April 2016, the "Moving People" forum will show what foreign cultural and educational policy is currently achieving, what topics it is addressing and how it should be developed further. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is also taking part in the extensive programme. As part of