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  1. Workshop on the exhibition concept for the non-European collections at the Humboldt Forum successfully concluded (08.04.2011)

    The International Advisory Board Humboldt Forum met for the first time from 6 to 8 April 2011. The expert committee consists of around forty renowned museum experts and academics from all continents. Its purpose is to provide critical support for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's exhibitio

  2. Agreement to the Sphinx of Hattusha (13.05.2011)

    The German-Turkish expert talks on the Hittite Sphinx were concluded today in Berlin. It has been agreed that the fragmentary sculpture, which is over three thousand years old and has been in the Pergamon Museum on Berlin's Museum Island since 1934, will be handed over to Turkey as a gesture of Germ

  3. Free admission for children and young people up to the age of 18 - new admission regulations at the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (05.07.2010)

    From 1 October 2010, children and young people will have free admission to the museums of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Musikinstrumenten-Museum) until the age of 18 - instead of the previous age of 16. This change was decided by the SPK Foundation Council l

  4. Experts from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation involved in uncovering forgeries in the Jägers Collection case. The significance of scientific analyses by the Rathgen Research Laboratory of the National Museums in Berlin (10.01.2012)

    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,

  5. Private sponsor supports the Museum of Islamic Art's digitisation project as part of the planned "Islamic Art Online" portal (30.01.2012)

    The National Museums in Berlin of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the art patron Yousef Jameel recently signed a contract to finance the digitisation, cataloguing and virtual preparation of large parts of the Museum of Islamic Art's collection. The generous funding from Yousef Jameel w

  6. Purchase of two watercolours by Wilhelm Lehmbruck - both works previously restituted to the heiress of the former owner Paul Westheim (27.01.2012)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently transferred ownership of the two watercolours "Susanna" (1914) and "Mother and Child" (1918) by Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881-1919) to the heiress of the art critic and collector Paul Westheim, Dr Margit Frenk. The works were purchased by the Prussian Cul

  7. Russians and Germans. 1000 years of art, history and culture (25.06.2012)

    6 October 2012 to 13 January 2013 at the Neues Museum From 6 October 2012 to 13 January 2013, the National Museums in Berlin are presenting the exhibition "Russians & Germans - 1000 Years of Art, History and Culture" at the Neues Museum on Museum Island. A few days ago, this exhibition opened at the

  8. David Chipperfield Architects commissioned with the refurbishment of the New National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin (29.03.2012)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recently commissioned the office of British architect David Chipperfield to plan the complete refurbishment of the Neue Nationalgalerie at the Kulturforum. The famous building by Mies van der Rohe needs to be extensively renovated, from the façade to the

  9. 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

  10. A work by Menzel believed lost has returned to the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (15.04.2014)

    A few days ago, the gouache "Ash Wednesday Morning" by Adolph von Menzel was returned to Berlin. The work had been considered lost since the Second World War. A few years ago, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation became aware of its whereabouts in the Lithuanian Art Museum in Vilnius. In the co