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At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected 37-year-old Christoph Rauch as Head of the Oriental Department of the Berlin State Library. The position has been vacant since the departure of Dr Hartmut-Ortwin Feistel at the end of June 20

A new research database makes the so-called "Rubensohn Library" of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin accessible. As part of a research project, a total of around 800 documents have been restored and scientifically analysed over the past two years. As of tod

The painting "Dragoner-Regiment von Borke Nr 7" (1864) by Friedrich Wilhelm Meyerheim was kept in the Nationalgalerie as so-called foreign property and was also published as such. In the course of research by the Deutsches Historisches Museum (DHM), it has now been clearly identified as belonging to

Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin heads the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) with a

My Berlin began with Heinz Berggruen - professionally and emotionally. When I became President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in February 1999, one of my first encounters was with Heinz and Bettina Berggruen in the Stüler Building, in the Berggruen Collection. It was friendship at firs

Foundation restituted over 350 works of art and more than 2000 books - Magazine shows in reports, interviews and portraits how the provenance of objects is researched and how fair and equitable solutions are found Washington was a revolution". This is how US diplomat Stuart Eizenstat describes the c

Gold hat and Nefertiti, Cleopatra and Caspar David Friedrich, Canova and Pergamon. The curved façade of the Bode Museum, the temple of the Alte Nationalgalerie, the resurrected Neues Museum and the idyllic Kolonnadenhof. The Museum Island is one of Berlin's main attractions and one of the world's to

The Institute for Museum Research reports: 107.4 million visits to museums and exhibition centres in 2024 - museums show more special exhibitions again - data collected for zoos, animal parks and botanical gardens for the first time Museums and exhibition centres in Germany enjoyed a 1.3 percent inc

The exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders. Archaeology and History of the 5th to 8th Centuries" opens today in St Petersburg. St. Petersburg, where it will be on show until 16 August, is the second stop for the exhibition, which was already shown with great success from 13 March to

The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today unanimously appointed Professor Dr Markus Hilgert, born in 1969, as the new Director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East at the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage. He succeeds Professor Dr Beate Salje, w