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  1. The European Cultural Heritage Summit will take place in Berlin and Potsdam from 18 to 24 June 2018 (25.05.2018)

    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

  2. Online portal makes provenance research on the Rudolf Mosse Collection accessible / New acquisitions for the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (02.05.2018)

    The collection of the Berlin publisher and patron of the arts Rudolf Mosse (1843-1920) comprised thousands of paintings, sculptures, artefacts, books and antiques. Almost one hundred years after the death of the Jewish art collector, more is now known about them than ever before and they have been p

  3. "Postponed heritage? Colonialism Yesterday and Today": 4th International Symposium of the Goethe-Institut and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin (22.11.2018)

    While the restitution of cultural objects is at the centre of the debate in Europe, completely different questions arise in their places of origin, which have to do with the friction between a global economy and regionally specific conditions, which in turn can be traced back to the colonial past. T

  4. International research museums agree on joint global knowledge and collection network in Berlin (08.11.2018)

    A total of 232 museum representatives from 109 institutions in 24 countries took part in the world's first conference of research museums from 4 to 6 November 2018. At the end of the conference, the participants signed a declaration emphasising that research museums around the world can work togethe

  5. Foundation restitutes drawing from the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (18.03.2019)

    A few days ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restituted a drawing by the Romantic artist Carl Philipp Fohr from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heirs of its former owner Karl Mayer. The provenance of the work had been clarified during research as part of the provenance research project o

  6. Lars-Christian Koch becomes Director of the Collections of the National Museums in Berlin at the Humboldt Forum (19.03.2018)

    Foundation Board unanimously elected the renowned ethnomusicologist today / Parzinger: Koch impresses with his expertise, experience and network The ethnomusicologist Lars-Christian Koch will become Director of the Ethnological Museum and soon also of the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums

  7. Keys handed over for the Berlin State Library in the Unter den Linden building (04.11.2019)

    Basic refurbishment of the historic building complex in keeping with its listed status is complete Berlin. The keys to the Berlin State Library in the Unter den Linden building were handed over today at a ceremony attended by 300 invited guests. This marks the completion of the basic refurbishment a

  8. Bronze statuette of a satyr from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities is handed over to the Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel (28.02.2020)

    The statuette of a satyr had long been kept in the Collection of Classical Antiquities of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin as a foreign possession. In 2019, it was finally clarified that it came from Kassel. We cordially invite you to the handover (with photo opportunity) on 3 March 2020, at 1 p.m. a

  9. German Symphony Orchestra Berlin (28.02.2020)

    Notturno' at the 'Pergamonmuseum. The Panorama' on 06.03. An ensemble of the DSO plays works by Biber, Britten and Zelenka On 6 March, an ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) will continue the popular 'Notturno' concert series. The venue is the temporary exhibition building '

  10. Together for the science metropolis. Berlin's non-university research institutions join forces (21.02.2020)

    Strengthening Berlin as an international science metropolis is the goal of a joint initiative of the capital's non-university research institutions. They have joined forces to form BR 50 (Berlin Research 50) in order to develop joint strategies for research and dialogue with politics and society. Th