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In the trial concerning Jäger's alleged art collection, which led to a legally binding judgement at the end of December 2011, the results of the extensive scientific investigations carried out by the Rathgen research laboratory helped to substantiate the suspicion of art forgery and, in particular,

As part of a digitisation project, the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin will make 6,000 texts available in an online database by autumn 2013. The project is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It offers ancient history scholars as well as the

At its meeting on 9 December 2011, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation unanimously elected Dr Joachim Jäger as the new Deputy Director of the Nationalgalerie and Director of the Neue Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Jäger, born in Munich in 1963, hol

A major acquisition by the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, the Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg, the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung and the Free State of Bavaria, supported by the Kulturstiftung der Länder and the Rudolf-August Oetker Stiftung f

A precious ivory jug from the early 18th century has been returned to the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. The object had not returned from its storage location in Berlin after the Second World War and was long considered lost. The Prague Museum of Decorative Arts, which had acqui

The archaeological and ethnological collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin also contain human remains. These include bones, some of which have entered the collection in processed form (e.g. in the case of ethnological artefacts such as bone flutes) and some in unprocessed form (e.g. archaeol

According to the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, the topping-out ceremony for the new Berlin Palace and the open building site days are a good opportunity to promote the outstanding collections on the art and culture of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the America

For some years now, the handling of non-European objects and their history has been the subject of public debate. In the course of intensified provenance research in all collections and also in preparation for the presentation in the Humboldt Forum, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is now p

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted eight works of art to the heirs of Felicia Lachmann-Mosse. The works were part of the extensive art collection that her father, the Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse, had built up since the 1880s. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation had come

The Berlin Egyptologist and Orientalist Prof Dr Verena Lepper has received one of the most important awards in the world of research, the ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). She now has access to funding for her research project "Localising 4000 Years of Cultural History. Te