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The international conference "Cultural Property in Danger: Looted Excavations and Illegal Trade" begins this Thursday at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin. The two-day meeting of experts from Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Nigeria, Mozambique, Mexico, Greece and Germany is being organised by the Prussian Cu

Before the Second World War, the Art Library of the National Museums in Berlin owned over 400 works by the photographer Ottomar Anschütz. A large part of these are considered lost. Recently, Anschütz's great-grandson gave the museum six photographs of wolves and foxes taken in 1886. Holger Anschütz

Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel will officially open the new James-Simon-Galerie on Berlin's Museum Island on 12 July. An action day of the National Museums in Berlin is then planned for 13 July. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, says: "With her commitment t

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

At its meeting yesterday, the Reform Commission of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) discussed the situation at the Berlin State Library (SBB), the Ibero-American Institute (IAI) and the Secret State Archives (GStA) in detail. The discussions centred on the question of how the autonomy

The basic refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie has been awarded first prize by the BDA Berlin (Association of German Architects). This was announced yesterday by the BDA. The interdisciplinary jury particularly praised the "refurbishment carried out with masterful precision and an almost invisi

Vaccination will take place from 16 to 19 February 2022 at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin at Potsdamer Platz, Potsdamer Straße 33. Registration via Doctolib: https://www.doctolib.de/institut/berlin/aino Vaccination protects - even culture. That's why the SPK, together with Aino Betriebsmedizin GmbH,

Thousands of "Sunday excursionists" attended concerts, performances, readings, guided tours and church services yesterday and dined at the summer table in Sigismundstraße. All neighbouring residents had opened their gardens and green spaces to visitors as part of the cultural summer festival. The co

The new annual report of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has been published. It looks back on the important events of 2022 - such as the securing of the Rieckhallen, the discovery of a Rembrandt, restitutions such as the Benin bronzes, the opening of the museums in the Humboldt Forum and t

On 30 November 2010, the Board of Trustees and the General Assembly of the German Digital Library (DDB) Competence Network were constituted in Berlin. Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and newly elected spokesman of the board of the competence network coordina