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Ownership of disputed collections will be transferred to a foundation under private law - SPK gives up objects as part of a compensation scheme - Parzinger: Museum visitors stand to gain the most from this agreement On 26 May 2025, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation,

Today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously appointed Dr Elisabeth Tietmeyer as the new Director of the Museum of European Cultures of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. She has already been Deputy Director of this museum since Octo

Today's topping-out ceremony for the new Archaeology Competence Centre in the presence of Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel, Ministerial Director at the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, and Jan Mücke, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Building Ministry, marks a further s

A few days ago, the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning handed over the first completed rooms in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's Unter den Linden building to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Over the next few weeks, the librarians will move into the rooms - vault storage, st

Human remains that were in the collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin were returned to Australia today, 5 December 2024. Together with the Australian Embassy, the Ethnological Museum organised a memorial service for the ancestors, who are now travelling home. They w

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recovered four paintings from the Alte Nationalgalerie that had been lost since the Second World War. They were offered independently of each other in the art trade from private ownership and identified as the property of the Prussian Cultural Heritage F

The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Director General of the National Museums in Berlin see a new building at the Kulturforum as a significant and realisable step towards the further development of Berlin's museum landscape. This will create the urgently needed presenta

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today returned nine objects from the collection of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin to the Chugach Alaska Corporation. Foundation President Hermann Parzinger presented them to the Vice President of the Chugach Alaska Corporation, Joh

Yesterday, the Advisory Board of the Provenance Research Centre at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation decided for the second time on applications for funding for long-term provenance research projects. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, said: "It is an

To mark its 350th anniversary, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin is opening the special exhibition "A library makes history. 350 years of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin". For ten weeks, it will be presenting top items from its collections at nine stations. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian C