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  1. On the temporary care of the former Charité collection of human remains in the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the National Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage (21.03.2014)

    In response to the press release issued by the Central Council of the African Community, the Initiative of Black People in Germany and the NGO alliances "No Humboldt 21!" and "Genocide is not time-barred!" on 17 March 2014: "Federal government plans to deport human remains from the colonial era", th

  2. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over two paintings from the former armoury collection to the German Historical Museum (13.08.2015)

    Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation hands over two paintings from the former armoury collection to the German Historical Museum The German Historical Museum has received two paintings from the collections of the Zeughaus back from the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer

  3. Why don't you go over there! The new SPK magazine is dedicated to the reunification of the Berlin collections 25 years ago and the people who were there (13.01.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation looks back on a quarter of a century of its reunited collections. Between 1991 and 1992, the libraries, archives and museums brought together what had been divided for four and a half decades. To mark the anniversary, the SPK magazine tells the story of the

  4. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes work from the Haussmann Collection / Repurchase secures its place in the Kupferstichkabinett (06.01.2016)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned a work from the Kupferstichkabinett to the heiress of art collector Dr Fritz Haussmann. However, the allegorical drawing of the 18th century architect Jean Baptiste Broebes will remain in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, which acquired it f

  5. Medal of Honour of the Royal Numismatic Society for former director of the Berlin Numismatic Collection (29.12.2015)

    The Royal Numismatic Society (London) has awarded Prof. Dr Bernd Kluge, former Director of the Coin Cabinet of the National Museums in Berlin, its Medal of Honour. Andrew Burnett, President of the Royal Numismatic Society and former Director of the Coin Cabinet of the British Museum, presented the m

  6. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation returns historical board game to the Dresden State Art Collections (05.12.2015)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation today handed over a historical Tric-Trac game to the Dresden State Art Collections. The piece was one of the artefacts that were relocated to the USSR during the war and returned to the GDR in 1958. At the time, it was mistakenly given to the East Berlin Mus

  7. Victoria of Calvatone from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, believed lost, rediscovered in St Petersburg (28.12.2016)

    The sculpture "Victoria of Calvatone" from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, which had been missing since the end of the war and was on display in the Altes Museum on Berlin's Museum Island until 1939, has resurfaced in Russia in the course of scientific research. This emerges from a r

  8. Dahlem and the Humboldt Forum: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and National Museums in Berlin publish the magazine "Sammlungswelten" (Worlds of Collections) (16.12.2016)

    Kuratorium Preußischer Kulturbesitz supports the magazine, which will be included in the next few days in the magazines "Cicero" and "Monopol" and in January also in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and its National Museums in Berlin are publishing a magaz

  9. Hermann Parzinger on the joint project of the Sculpture Collection of the National Museums in Berlin and the Pushkin Museum in Moscow "Donatello and Renaissance Sculpture" (19.05.2016)

    As part of the long-term cooperation between the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, sculptures and fragments from the Italian Renaissance that were part of the Berlin sculpture collection before the war were identified in the Moscow museum in 2015. As a

  10. Lost Etruscan warrior statuette returned to the Collection of Classical Antiquities (28.02.2017)

    The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has recovered a valuable Etruscan bronze statuette that was thought to have been lost since the Second World War. The depiction of a spear-throwing man with a helmet, which had been part of the antiquities collection since 1869, was recently identified in th