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SPK returns books confiscated during the Second World War to the French daily newspaper Le Figaro - Ceremonial handover at the embassy Today at the French Embassy in Berlin, the Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Achim Bonte, returned 33 books to representatives of the French newspa

The Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin holds two masks from the indigenous Kogi community from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia. They are objects with a ritual background and still have sacred significance for the Kogi, whose self-designation is "Kágaba". Because of th

The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, today unanimously made far-reaching personnel decisions for the Berlin State Library and the National Museums in Berlin. Reinhard Altenhöner has been appointed Permanent Depu

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned the sculpture "Susanna" by Reinhold Begas to the heirs of Felicia Lachmann-Mosse. The work will initially remain on loan to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. It is currently on display in the rotunda on the second exhibition floor of the Alte N

Once again, the collector Egidio Marzona has surprised the Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin with a major donation. The 115 books and editions, 141 posters and around 1,000 invitation cards are an excellent addition to the Marzona Collection, which was acquired in 2002. Even then, Marzon

The world-famous environment "Das Kapital Raum 1970-1977" by Joseph Beuys, which is considered one of his key works, is coming to Berlin. The collector Erich Marx is donating the work to the collection of the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin as a permanent loan. The complex spatial

Some of the personal belongings of the architect and painter Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), which went missing during the turmoil of the Second World War, were returned to the Nationalgalerie Berlin yesterday. The handover took place in San Francisco. The father of the previous owner, who has

After the book burnings of 10 May 1933, the National Socialist German state's plundering of modern art in "museums and publicly accessible collections" under the euphemistic slogan of "degenerate art" was one of the first openly celebrated acts of barbarism by this state. They were subsequently sanc

10.02.2017 Finally, Prussia! Article Joachim Marzahn on the major clear-out in the basement of the Pergamon Museum following German reunification. In 1989, Marzahn was a research assistant at the Museum of the Ancient Near East (East Berlin); he became its director in 1990 and later chief curator of

Today, the Foundation has handed over a collection of 71 pieces of music from the former estate of the pianist Arthur Rubinstein to his four children. The fate of this collection reflects the drama of the past century: the arbitrary rule of the Nazi era, the raids of the initially victorious German