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The twenty-two centimetre high group of figures "Hercules and Omphale", carved out of ivory by the Baroque sculptor Balthasar Permoser around 1700, returned to its original place in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts after decades of loss. The work had initially come to the Berlin Kunstkammer in 1

Since the reunification of the Berlin collections under the umbrella of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, recovered relocation documents have been analysed. This has made it possible to systematically record and document the losses from the period of the Second World War and the occupation

Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, and Peter-Klaus Schuster, Director General of the National Museums in Berlin, welcomed Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the heads of German missions abroad to the Ethnological Museum in Berlin-Dahlem ye

Thanks to Prof. Dr h.c. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation - The spoken word prevails - It is a moving moment to be able to stand here on the stage of the Konzerthaus and say thank you. This building, opened in 1821, is not only festive, but also has the same

Today's topping-out ceremony and the three subsequent open days offer the public the opportunity to gain an impression of the progress of the construction and restoration work that has been underway for four years in the war-damaged Neues Museum. As one of the five buildings on the Museum Island, it

On 1 January 2008, the newly founded Office for Provenance Research at the Institute for Museum Research of the National Museums in Berlin will begin its work. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation: "This step has been necessary for a long time. I am delighted

With the "Vogel Phoenix", a richly illustrated reader, the SPK is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a look "from the outside" at the variety of themes and projects. Companions from the world of cultural policy, colleagues in the arts and sciences, in museums and libraries, friends and patrons, a

As part of the activities of the Petersburg Dialogue, the conference "Building on World Heritage" took place on 27 and 28 November 2007 in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. It was chaired by Michael Piotrovski, Director of the Hermitage, and Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cult

One of the most valuable collections of the former Prussian State Library, now the Berlin State Library, the Autographa Collection, has been catalogued after several years of intensive work and is now recorded in a comprehensive two-part catalogue (book and CD-ROM). The special feature of this catal

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation will expand the Museum Berggruen in Berlin-Charlottenburg in accordance with today's decision by the Foundation Council. The family of Heinz Berggruen, who died in February 2007, intends to expand the holdings of the Museum Berggruen with high-calibre long-t