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The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has acquired Alexander von Humboldt's American Travel Diaries. Written partly in German and partly in French during his great voyage of discovery through Central and South America between 1799 and 1804, these unique and internationally highly significant his

On 7 December 2019, the exhibition "The Victoria of Calvatone: The Fate of a Masterpiece", organised by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the National Museums in Berlin, will open in the Hermitage's "Roman Court" room. The exhibition marks the completion of the restoration of the stat

SPK restitutes sculpture by Fritz Huf to the heiress of Hans (Jean) Fürstenberg - SPSG purchases work for the park of Schönhausen Palace On 5 April 2022, the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK) will hand over the bronze sculpture "Resting Woman", creat

SPK agrees to proceedings before Advisory Commission despite unresolved issues - goal must be a solution for all potential beneficiaries The Guelph Treasure has been the subject of various restitution claims since 2008. In 2014, following a thorough examination, the Advisory Commission recommended t

21.11.2018 Right to be Returned? Article An estimated 600,000 works of art were plundered by the Nazis. A summary of restitutions to date Twenty years have passed since the Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets. This is an anniversary to celebrate even if the fact itself is no reason for joy

Service and user-friendliness lie at the focus of the fully redesigned website of the Geheimes Staatsarchiv. The new website demonstrates that the Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Privy State Archives) is a modern facility with a commitment to service. The website has been c

Sharon Jeanette Macdonald has been nominated for Germany's most highly endowed research award: the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship 2015, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and awarded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH). The prize money amounts to five

A total of 19 refugees from Syria and Iraq are being trained as museum guides so that they can lead compatriots through the Pergamon Museum, the Bode Museum and the German Historical Museum in their native language. The title of the project is programmatic: "Multaka" means "meeting point" in Arabic

The Mexican artist Mariana Castillo Deball is designing a wall with a large-scale art installation in the Mesoamerica exhibition room of the Ethnological Museum in the Humboldt Forum. Inspired by indigenous pictorial documents, Mariana Castillo Deball has created a work consisting of numerous clay-f

Parzinger: We are ready for immediate return and are waiting for signals from the countries of origin In a project launched in 2017, the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin (Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin) worked with scientis