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  1. Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart receives 166 works of contemporary art as a donation from Friedrich Christian Flick (19.02.2008)

    Today in Berlin, the art collector Friedrich Christian Flick and the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Klaus-Dieter Lehmann signed a contract for the donation of 166 outstanding works by 44 contemporary artists. It is the result of the constructive and successful collaboration b

  2. Ceremony on 8 November 2006. 100 years of the Museum of East Asian Art (08.11.2006)

    Speech by Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation - The spoken word prevails - Excellencies, dear Mr Osten, dear Mr Veit, ladies and gentlemen, Today we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Museum of East Asian Art. I would like to extend a very warm welc

  3. Korean Cultural Centre in Germany supports Museum of Asian Art - Agreement signed to fund a curator position (15.12.2021)

    The Korean Cultural Centre in Germany under the direction of Mr Bongki Lee and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation have signed an agreement to intensify research with and on the Korean collection of the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin. The research activities supported in

  4. Restitution to the descendants of Carl Heumann (04.07.2022)

    Berlin, Munich and Dresden: Restituted works from the collection of Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann handed over A total of five works of art from several German museums were handed over to the heirs of the Chemnitz banker Carl Heumann at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus today. The Prussian Cultura

  5. SPK restitutes Chinese ridge turret figure to the heirs of Eduard Fuchs (06.12.2024)

    Restitution of Nazi-looted property to descendants of the politically persecuted writer Eduard Fuchs - Chinese object from the Ethnological Museum handed over The SPK has today restituted a Chinese ridge turret figure from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin t

  6. Plant Matters – About Plants in Museums and Archives (30.03.2026)

    How is plant life represented in collections and archives? The upcoming online special exhibition *Plant Matters – Vegetal Art across Collections* by 4A_Lab sheds light on the stories behind the artworks, explores their connections with plants, and builds bridges between art, botany and society thro

  7. Plant Matters – About Plants in Museums and Archives (30.03.2026)

    How is plant life represented in collections and archives? The upcoming online special exhibition *Plant Matters – Vegetal Art across Collections* by 4A_Lab sheds light on the stories behind the artworks, explores their connections with plants, and builds bridges between art, botany and society thro

  8. Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin reports: Visitor numbers to museums in Germany remain at a high level in the pre-corona year 2019 (18.01.2021)

    111.6 million visits to German museums in 2019 - trend towards special exhibitions unbroken Special exhibition trend unbroken - Special topic of the 2019 overall statistical survey: Collection holdings and handling collections The museums participating in the survey reported a total of 111,633,603 v

  9. Berlin State Library returns historical prints (13.01.2010)

    On Monday (11 January 2010), the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returned two books formerly owned by the Counts of Lynar to their heirs. The two volumes from the 17th century had come to the attention of the Berlin State Library during the processing of its holdings. Their provenance could be

  10. Happy ending after 74 years: Menzel's "Dame im Coupé" and "Schutzmann im Winter" back in the Kupferstichkabinett (23.03.2019)

    The two works "Dame im Coupé" and "Schutzmann im Winter" had been considered lost since their removal from storage during the Second World War. Now the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has succeeded in the sensational recovery of the two prints by Adolph Menzel (1815-1905). Aro