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Shell of the extension to the Neue Nationalgalerie largely completed - Minister of State for Culture Weimer, SPK President Ackermann and Director Biesenbach emphasise the new building's charisma and importance for the collections of 20th century art The topping-out crown now hovers over berlin moder

The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) provides scholars with information and hence with complex, interconnected services. The extent and quality of their holdings and expertise in the institutions provide outstanding infrastructure for research. More on This

Dealing with Cultural Assets Looted by the National Socialists The National Socialists systematically took art and books from those they persecuted. The Foundation searches for just and fair solutions based on the Washington Principles for looted assets that ended up in its collections. Im August 19

Remembrance ceremony at the Neue Nationalgalerie for Heiner Pietzsch, an eminent patron of the arts On October 17, the Berlin cultural scene bid farewell to the great arts patron Heiner Pietzsch in a moving ceremony of remembrance at the Neue Nationalgalerie. The event was hosted by Ulla Pietzsch an

Since 2017, Mecila, the Maria Sibylla Merian Centre Conviviality-Inequality in Latin America has been conducting research with funding from the Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR). The project, involving institutions from Germany, Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, will no

It was a historic encounter: today, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, the directors of the German museums in the Benin Dialogue Group, the cultural affairs ministers of the Länder, and representatives of the German Foreign Office agreed on a joint statement concerning th

ICOM has updated its Emergency Red List of Iraqi Cultural Objects at Risk. On January 14, 2016, the German version will be presented at the Archäologisches Zentrum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Illegal excavations and looting threaten cultural heritage across the globe. This has reached dramat

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Holdings Evacuated to Poland Some of the holdings of the Prussian collections were evacuated during the Second World War to German areas that now belong to Poland. The Foundation still claims ownership of these cultural assets. From the beginning of the Second World War, the holdings of the Staatsbi

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