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The exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders. Archaeology and History of the 5th to 8th Centuries" opens today in St Petersburg. St. Petersburg, where it will be on show until 16 August, is the second stop for the exhibition, which was already shown with great success from 13 March to

The conference, organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation together with the MICHAEL partners, focused on the current state of digitisation and in particular the role of portals in the cultural and scientific sector in Germany and Europe. Over 400 participants from 26 countries came to t

The Board of Trustees today unanimously elected Prof. Dr Dr h.c. mult. Hermann Parzinger as the future President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK). On 1 March 2008, Parzinger will succeed Prof. Dr. h.c. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, who has held the office since February 1999. The Chairman

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned works from the Museum of Decorative Arts and the Alte Nationalgalerie to the heir of the collector Helmuth Meißner, who was expropriated in violation of the GDR constitution. The Dresden native's well-known and extensive art collection was

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the collector Erich Marx have now reached supplementary and selective new agreements as a sustainable basis for the future-oriented work of the "Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart". Accordingly, the Marx Collection will be curated exclusively by th

The revised design of the James Simon Gallery by David Chipperfield Architects presented today is the result of the planning phase, which was made possible by the provision of federal funding (73 million euros) in November 2006. Changes to the specifications made it necessary to revise the design su

The "Förderkreis Museum Berggruen Berlin e.V." was recently founded with the aim of further promoting and expanding the museum, which is part of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, through civic engagement. The founding members are Heinz Berggruen's heirs - his widow Bettina and his children

On 25 July 1957, the law on the establishment of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation was passed by the German Bundestag. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann, emphasised: "The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) is a great success story. Th

The Foundation recently returned the oil painting by the Bolognese painter Guiseppe Maria Crespi "The Train of Silen" from the former collection of Dr Fritz Haussmann to Fritz Haussmann's heiress. She had asserted her claim for restitution to the Foundation. The work was in the collection of the Gem

25 July 2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the German Bundestag's resolution on the law establishing the Foundation. It contains regulations on the transfer of art and cultural assets (archive, library and museum holdings as well as scientific collections) and the associated properties, which we