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  1. Provenance research is followed by mediation: Project to research human remains from West Africa is extended (04.07.2024)

    Provenance of historical skull collection researched - funding from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media enables mediation in West Africa Over a period of three years, researchers from the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin have been workin

  2. Mourning for Edmund de Unger - internationally renowned collector of Islamic art (15.02.2011)

    Edmund de Unger, whose private collection in the field of Islamic art, known internationally as the Keir Collection, achieved worldwide significance, died on 25 January 2011 in Ham near London at the age of 92. Edmund de Unger was laid to rest today in Richmond / London with great sympathy from inte

  3. New director for the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts (08.12.2009)

    At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously appointed Dr Sabine Thümmler as the future Director of the Museum of Decorative Arts of the National Museums in Berlin. She will succeed Dr Angela Schönberger, who is retiring at the end of February

  4. Feasibility study commissioned to optimise Berlin's museum landscape (11.09.2012)

    The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger, the Director General Michael Eissenhauer and the 15 museum directors of the SMB, in particular the collection directors concerned, Udo Kittelmann and Bernd Lindemann, have decided on the further course of action regarding

  5. Return from the Ethnological Museum to Native People in Alaska decided (18.12.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will return nine objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. The Board of Trustees today approved a corresponding proposal by the President. The artefacts are grave goods from Na

  6. 23 objects restituted by the SPK form the centrepiece of an exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Namibia (11.04.2024)

    Exhibition as the result of a long-term, collaborative research process with cultural heritage communities, artists and academics - retransfer officially signed On 11 April 2024, a large-scale exhibition will open at the National Art Gallery of Namibia in Windhoek, focusing on 23 objects that were f

  7. Wolf Biermann is today handing over his archive and diaries to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Ceremony at the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden (13.07.2021)

    With the help of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Cultural Foundation of the Federal States, the State Library acquires Wolf Biermann's private and professional archives and personal diaries. Like no other, the 84-year-old singer-songwriter's work has reflected t

  8. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns three Meissen porcelain groups (06.08.2008)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned three Meissen porcelain groups from the Arnhold family's former collection to their legal successor, the company S.Bleichröder OHG i.L.. The pieces, which were confiscated due to persecution, were exhibited in the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the

  9. Parzinger on the approval of the budget for the remodelling of the Gemäldegalerie (12.06.2012)

    Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, explains: "I am delighted with the decision of the Bundestag to include the remodelling of the Gemäldegalerie in the supplementary budget for 2012 and would like to thank Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann for his ef

  10. Refurbishment work begins at Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin (25.09.2019)

    Upgrading the air conditioning system makes it necessary to close the Kleihueshalle on 30 September 2019 The Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin will undergo extensive refurbishment work. The Kleihueshalle, where the exhibition "The Elephant in the Room - Sculptures from the Marx Colle