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  1. Lost ivory jug back in the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts (14.03.2013)

    A precious ivory jug from the early 18th century has been returned to the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. The object had not returned from its storage location in Berlin after the Second World War and was long considered lost. The Prague Museum of Decorative Arts, which had acqui

  2. "Bronze Age - Europe without borders". Scientific significance of the exhibition with artefacts from the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History that were removed during the war (20.06.2013)

    From 21 June to 8 September 2013, the exhibition "Bronze Age - Europe without Borders" will take place at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Its second stop will be at the State Historical Museum in Moscow from 15 October 2013 to 13 January 2014. The exhibition concept is the result of German-R

  3. Markus Hilgert appointed new director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East in Berlin (18.06.2013)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today unanimously appointed Professor Dr Markus Hilgert, born in 1969, as the new Director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East at the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. He succeeds Professor Dr Beate Salje, w

  4. Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts restitutes two works to the heirs of the art dealer Bachstitz (09.07.2013)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned two works from the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin to the two grandsons of the art dealer Kurt Walter Bachstitz. The objects in question are a writing tablet and a bronze mortar from the Renaissance period. The obje

  5. Parzinger on the reopening of the Museum of Decorative Arts: A place of inspiration for a creative city (20.11.2014)

    The Museum of Decorative Arts at the Kulturforum reopens this Friday after three years of remodelling. The collection of the oldest museum of its kind in Germany has been reorganised at a cost of 4.3 million euros and the foyer has been redesigned. The main attraction is a new fashion and design gal

  6. New scanning technology CultLab3D: How museum pieces can be digitised on the assembly line (05.11.2014)

    It's a revolution in museums: with the CultLab3D scanning line, collection artefacts can be captured in three dimensions and converted into authentic digital models in just a few minutes. While 3D reproduction techniques for museum treasures were previously expensive and, above all, time-consuming,

  7. Top researcher for Berlin's museum heritage: successful application for multi-million Humboldt Professorship (23.10.2014)

    Sharon Jeanette Macdonald has been nominated for Germany's most highly endowed research award: the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH). The prize money amounts to five

  8. "Notturno" - Chamber concert on 10 January at Hamburger Bahnhof. DSO ensemble plays works from Vivaldi to Berio at the Museum für Gegenwart (02.01.2014)

    To kick off 2014, the chamber concert series "Notturno", which the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin has been organising in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 2010, invites you to the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin on 10 January. Like all of the se

  9. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation continues cooperation with Georgian partners / Ceremony at the Bode Museum (28.05.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has maintained close relations with Georgia for many years. A highlight of the cooperation to date was the EU Twinning project carried out with the Georgian National Museum between 2010 and 2012. Over the next few years, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin will b

  10. Hermann Parzinger on the subject of the Gemäldegalerie's move to the Museum Island (24.02.2014)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, comments on the statements made by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters on the subject of the Gemäldegalerie's relocation to Museum Island (interview, Berliner Morgenpost, 23 February 2014): "I welcome the fact that