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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. Kokoschka "Pariser Platz in Berlin": Joint press release by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe (29.04.2014)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Commission for Looted Art in Europe are working together to clarify the provenance of Oskar Kokoschka's painting "Pariser Platz in Berlin". The Commission represents the family of Anna Caspari, a respected art dealer in Munich, who was deported from

  3. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation mourns the death of Wolf-Dieter Dube (10.09.2015)

    Long-standing Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin passes away at the age of 81 - Parzinger: architect of the museum landscape in reunified Berlin Wolf-Dieter Dube, the long-serving Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, has died. He died in Berlin on Wednesday at the age

  4. 'Notturno' at the Alte Nationalgalerie on 01.02. A trio of the DSO plays works by Haydn, Kozeluch and Weber (23.01.2019)

    An ensemble from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) presents itself with an unusual trio line-up at the second 'Notturno' evening of the season on 1 February. Works for transverse flute, violoncello and fortepiano by Haydn, Kozeluch and Weber are on the programme in the Deutsch-Römer-Saa

  5. Starting signal for the refurbishment and extension of the Pergamonmuseum (27.02.2006)

    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

  6. Hidden Gems with Joachim Marzahn: A man of many talents (26.03.2026)

    Joachim Marzahn is an ancient orientalist and archaeologist specialising in the Near East. For many years, he served as chief curator of the Inscription Collection at the Museum of the Near East (VAM) within the Berlin State Museums. Here, the renowned cuneiform scholar shares insights into his pers

  7. Hidden Gems with Joachim Marzahn: A man of many talents (26.03.2026)

    Joachim Marzahn is an ancient orientalist and archaeologist specialising in the Near East. For many years, he served as chief curator of the Inscription Collection at the Museum of the Near East (VAM) within the Berlin State Museums. Here, the renowned cuneiform scholar shares insights into his pers

  8. “It’s part of history – let’s tell the story!” (26.03.2026)

    To mark International Provenance Research Day 2025, the Kupferstichkabinett offered an insight into the eventful history of its own collection. Curator Andreas Schalhorn and provenance researcher Sven Haase from the Central Archive led a tour of the exhibition “Kosmos Blauer Reiter: From Kandinsky t

  9. “It’s part of history – let’s tell the story!” (26.03.2026)

    To mark International Provenance Research Day 2025, the Kupferstichkabinett offered an insight into the eventful history of its own collection. Curator Andreas Schalhorn and provenance researcher Sven Haase from the Central Archive led a tour of the exhibition “Kosmos Blauer Reiter: From Kandinsky t

  10. “Back-ups” in plaster (30.03.2026)

    On 18 July 2024, a ceremony was held at the plaster casting workshop of the Berlin State Museums, attended by the Ambassador of the Republic of Guatemala, H.E. Jorge Alfredo Lemcke Arevalo, to mark the handover of two replicas to the Guatemalan Museo Comunitario Yalambojoch. The plaster casts of obj