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FREE TO ENTER At the 2026 Island Festival, Sunday (7 June) will be dedicated to democracy. This is in keeping with this year’s theme for UNESCO World Heritage Day: ‘Together for Peace and Understanding’. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has therefore invited partner institutions from across

Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, was elected as a new member at this year's assembly of the Order Pour le mérite for Sciences and Arts. The ceremonial induction into the Order will take place at its public annual meeting in 2012 in the presence of the Federa

The Coordination Centre for the Preservation of Written Cultural Heritage will deal with issues relating to the preservation of written collections in archives and libraries at a national level. It was set up by the federal and state governments on the initiative of the Minister of State for Culture

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 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 second floor of the Humboldt Box now also provides a foretaste of the future presentation of Far Eastern art at the Humboldt Forum. The Schaudepot, the "Box in the Box", and new interactive applications for children and young people show examples of the new museum formats developed for the Humbo

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 concert series 'Notturno', organised by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), will start its new season on 2 November. In the first nocturnal chamber concert of the 2018|2019 season, a DSO ensemble will present works b

On 25 January 2021, the main building of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden will reopen digitally - after extensive refurbishment, modernisation and expansion. The structural and organisational measures have been completed and the Staatsbibliothek is ready to open the building. In his speech, Bun