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  1. An Italian Madonna portrait that had been missing since the end of the war returned to the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin yesterday (09.02.2012)

    The Renaissance painting "Mary with the Child" was consigned to Sotheby's New York for appraisal and identified by the auction house as an old collection of the Berlin Gemäldegalerie. The owner, the American Bryan Horney, immediately agreed to return the painting to the Gemäldegalerie. He himself ha

  2. Whereabouts of two faience vases in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts secured (27.10.2010)

    Two important faience vases from the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin were recently identified as former Jewish property. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has reached an agreement with the heirs that the vases can remain in the Museum of Decorative Arts, where they have

  3. Recovery of four miniatures from the Loewe Collection for the Alte Nationalgalerie (10.10.2019)

    The SPK was recently able to recover four works of art for the Nationalgalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin that had been thought lost. They belong to a collection of 219 miniatures that Berlin city councillor Loewe had bequeathed to the museum in 1897. The four works have now turned up on the

  4. museum4punkt0: digital technologies open up new worlds of experience in museums (31.10.2018)

    Virtually penetrating the forest floor or travelling across the moon, experiencing carnival all year round or discovering the hidden sides of paintings: The "museum4punkt0" project, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) with 15 million euros, is developing dig

  5. Lowtech - Sustainable solutions sought at SPK (27.01.2022)

    Competition announced for the basic renovation and expansion of the plaster moulding shop On 25 January 2022, the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning, on behalf of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, announced the competition for the basic restoration and extension of the plaste

  6. Profile of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz

    Profile of the Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) is one of the most important cultural institutions in the world. It brings together museums, libraries, archives and research institutes whose collections document the cult

  7. James-Simon-Galerie

    James-Simon-Galerie In future, the James-Simon-Galerie will serve as the entrance building and visitor centre for the Museumsinsel. Designed by David Chipperfield Architects, the sixth building on the Museumsinsel fits perfectly into the existing architectural ensemble. The topping out ceremony took

  8. New Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage published (16.05.2014)

    The recently published, comprehensive 48th volume of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Yearbook looks back on 2012, the year in which both the new General Reading Room of the State Library in the Unter den Linden building and the Archaeological Centre were completed. Also documented are the openings of

  9. New scanning technology CultLab3D: How museum pieces can be digitised on the assembly line (05.11.2014)

    It's a revolution in museums: with the CultLab3D scanning line, collection artefacts can be captured in three dimensions and converted into authentic digital models in just a few minutes. While 3D reproduction techniques for museum treasures were previously expensive and, above all, time-consuming,

  10. The central reception building on Berlin's Museum Island has been completed (13.12.2018)

    The ceremonial handover of the keys will take place today (12 noon) in the James-Simon-Galerie in the presence of the Minister of State for Culture, Monika Grütters, and the Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of the Interior, Building and Community, Marco Wanderwitz. The building