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On 24 January 2006, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects, developments and exhibitions were also presented, reports were given on building projects and a review of 2005 was give

Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, has been appointed Honorary Professor of Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He will devote himself in particular to the reorganisation of the chair in the areas of digital libraries, link

Whether the institution also stands for secrecy and concealment will soon become clear. Quite secret, on the other hand, and very publicly, the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage (GStA PK) presents an exhibition every three years. A show is being prepared for next spring that will s

With a unanimous decision by the representatives of the federal government and the state of Berlin on the board of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, the future design of the Pergamon Museum, the visitor guidance and the presentation of the collections have now been finalised, including the

Construction work on the Neues Museum, the war-damaged building by August Stüler (begun as the second building on Museum Island in 1843 and opened in 1859), which has survived as a ruin, is progressing rapidly in line with the plans of architect David Chipperfield. Parts of the building were complet

Today sees the end of a working session lasting several days at the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History to prepare the German-Russian exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders", which will also show artefacts relocated from Berlin to Russia as a result of the war. Following a

The foundation stone for the central reading room of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden is being laid today in the presence of the Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann and State Secretary Lütke Daldrup, who is standing in for the Federal Minister of Building Wolfgang Tiefensee. The new bui

Today, the Foundation has handed over a collection of 71 pieces of music from the former estate of the pianist Arthur Rubinstein to his four children. The fate of this collection reflects the drama of the past century: the arbitrary rule of the Nazi era, the raids of the initially victorious German

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation was recently able to hand over seventeen books and brochures from the lost private library of Leo Baeck to his granddaughter Marianne C. Dreyfus, who now lives in New York. The objects, whose provenance could only be discovered through special research, were

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe have good news to announce: A small-format Florentine Mannerist painting that went missing in the turmoil of the Second World War has today been handed over to the Berlin Gemäldegalerie by the London-based Commissi