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  1. Topping-out ceremony in Friedrichshagen (24.04.2023)

    Depot location of the National Museums in Berlin takes shape Berlin. In Berlin-Friedrichshagen, under the direction of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning (BBR) and on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK), a multifunctional depot building is being built for the

  2. Human remains from Tanzania: Confirmation of relationships to living persons for the first time (05.09.2023)

    Provenance research on human remains leads to modern-day descendants for the first time - DNA analysis proves clear relationships In a project launched in 2017, the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin, together with scientists from Rwanda, analysed the provenance

  3. Thinking plants: 4A_Lab Academy sheds light on interdependencies between humans and plants (30.10.2024)

    From 4 to 8 November 2024, the 4A_Lab invites you to the interdisciplinary academy "Ecological Entanglements across Collections - Plant Lives and Beyond" in Berlin. In dialogue with researchers, experts and an interested audience, ways of thinking about plant and non-human life forms will be examine

  4. Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz and partners present a new model of international co-curation and collaboration (01.12.2023)

    For the first time, the Indian public can experience the great artistic achievements of the ancient Mediterranean alongside the country's own cultural treasures. The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) - "a museum of ideas" in Mumbai - is presenting ancient sculptures to mark 75 y

  5. The "Rubensohn Library" of Elephantine: 4000 years of ancient Egyptian cultural history on papyri are now online (20.05.2015)

    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

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over Meyerheim painting to the German Historical Museum (30.05.2016)

    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

  7. "Merovingian period - Europe without borders. Archaeology and history of the 5th to 8th centuries". An exhibition of the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History in Russia (12.03.2007)

    In the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and his Russian counterpart Sokolov, an exhibition was opened today at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow that is not only a milestone in the cultural-historical presentation of the early Middle Ages, but is also of eminent cultural-politi

  8. Federal government funds Arab-German research cooperation with an additional 3.3 million euros (13.11.2018)

    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

  9. Egyptian Museum in Berlin with new management (26.06.2009)

    At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected Dr Friederike Seyfried as the future Director of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin. She will succeed Professor Dr Dietrich Wildung in July 2009, who

  10. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: Words of mourning for Heinz Berggruen (02.03.2007)

    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