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  1. New Director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History and new Head of the Sculpture Collection of the National Museums in Berlin (18.12.2007)

    At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appointed Prof Dr Matthias Wemhoff as the new Director of the Museum of Prehistory and Early History and Dr Julien Chapuis as Director of the Sculpture Collection. Both decisions were unanimous. The two collecti

  2. Opening of the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection (10.07.2008)

    A new highlight enriches Berlin's cultural life: the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, which is being shown under the name "Surreal Worlds" in the eastern Stüler Building opposite the Museum Berggruen and Charlottenburg Palace. The "Dieter Scharf Collection in Memory of Otto Gerstenberg Foundation" has

  3. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation acquires high-calibre collection of East Asian lacquer art (02.12.2008)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently acquired Klaus F. Naumann's lacquer collection for the Museum of Asian Art. It comprises 55 high-ranking East Asian lacquer works that exemplify a central art genre of Japan, the Ryūkyū Islands and China. At its core is Japanese lacquer art, which i

  4. Over 150 masterpieces of traditional Japanese art from the Klaus F. Naumann Collection for the Berlin Museum of Asian Art: donation and purchase (02.04.2009)

    The Museum of Asian Art at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin is today receiving the most important donation of traditional Japanese art in around a hundred years in a festive ceremony. Klaus F. Naumann, a native of Berlin who lives in Tokyo, is giving the museum more than one hundred works, including

  5. "German-Russian Library Initiative": First concrete projects to jointly research and make accessible book collections from German and Russian libraries that were relocated as a result of the war. (06.10.2009)

    On 23 September 2009, on the initiative of the Rudomino Library for Foreign Literature and the Berlin State Library, German and Russian librarians met in Moscow for a round table discussion in order to strengthen professional cooperation and exchange between German and Russian libraries and also to

  6. Outstanding late Gothic Madonna figure acquired for Berlin sculpture collection (25.05.2009)

    With the support of the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz recently acquired a "Mother of God Enthroned" for the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. We invite you to the ceremonial handover in the Basilica of

  7. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes alabaster relief - whereabouts in the Berlin Sculpture Collection secured (30.11.2009)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) recently returned a late medieval alabaster relief to the heiress of its former owner Harry Fuld Junior, the Magen David Adom UK (MDAUK), the English funding organisation of the Israeli aid organisation Red Star of David. However, the work, which was t

  8. Workshop on the exhibition concept for the non-European collections at the Humboldt Forum successfully concluded (08.04.2011)

    The International Advisory Board Humboldt Forum met for the first time from 6 to 8 April 2011. The expert committee consists of around forty renowned museum experts and academics from all continents. Its purpose is to provide critical support for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's exhibitio

  9. Friedrich Christian Flick Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof extended until 2021 (16.05.2011)

    The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, which has been on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart since September 2004, will continue to be presented there in the coming years. The current loan relationship, which was agreed for seven years and would have ended in autumn 2011, will

  10. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz cooperates with Polish National Library in preserving and digitising collections (21.06.2011)

    The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Biblioteka Narodowa - Polish National Library will cooperate in the future in the areas of processing and preserving the common cultural heritage and digitising their library collections. Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of t