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  1. Parzinger: We are not simply switching off Dahlem (09.01.2017)

    Thousands visit the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art last weekend The President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, has given a positive assessment of the closing weekend for the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art in Dahlem. Before both museum

  2. Newly published: Yearbook of Prussian Cultural Heritage reports on the work of the Foundation and looks to the future (23.12.2008)

    The 44th volume of the yearbook reports on outstanding events and developments in 2007, including the ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation's founding, with a speech by Federal President Horst Köhler. This volume also contains the speeches on the occasion of the change in the o

  3. Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation restitutes four works by Munch and Kirchner to the heirs of Prof Dr Curt Glaser (30.11.2012)

    Following extensive historical research, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the heirs of Prof Dr Curt Glaser have agreed on the return of four works from the former collection of Prof Dr Curt Glaser to his heirs. Prof Dr Curt Glaser, a medical doctor, prominent art historian, art critic,

  4. Found in the United States: Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recovers Egyptian stele that had been lost since the Second World War (30.05.2017)

    Valuable faience stele resurfaced in Michigan after seventy years during research work / Parzinger thanks American museum for great gesture A valuable Egyptian object that recently returned to Berlin can be seen again in the Neues Museum on Museum Island from mid-June. The upper part of a faience st

  5. Federal government funds Arab-German research cooperation with 15 million euros until 2025 (30.01.2020)

    Verena Lepper from the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin heads the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA). The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) will fund the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) with

  6. "Merovingian period - Europe without borders. Archaeology and history of the 5th to 8th centuries". Exhibition opening with looted artefacts in Russia (09.03.2007)

    On Monday, 12 March 2007, the joint exhibition "Merovingian Period - Europe without Borders" by the Museum of Prehistory and Early History of the Berlin State Museums, the Pushkin State Museum Moscow, the State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg and the State Historical Museum Moscow will be opened at

  7. Museum Island receives temporary exhibition building "Pergamonmuseum. The Panorama" (09.11.2016)

    In order to be able to offer visitors to Berlin's Museum Island an attractive programme during the renovation of the Pergamon Museum, the SPK is erecting a temporary exhibition building. It will be built directly opposite the Museum Island on Kupfergraben and next to the railway line. Visitors will

  8. New appointments to the Board of Trustees: Alexis von Poser becomes Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the National Museums in Berlin (04.07.2019)

    The Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, chaired by Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters, unanimously decided on Tuesday that Dr Alexis von Poser should take over the position of Deputy Director of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art. The Ethnologi

  9. "Bronze Age - Europe without borders". Exhibition of artefacts from the Berlin Museum of Prehistory and Early History in the Hermitage that were taken away during the war (18.06.2013)

    On 21 June 2013, the exhibition "Bronze Age - Europe without Borders" will open at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in the presence of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Vladimir Putin. It is a joint project between the Hermitage Museum, the State Historical Museum (Moscow), t

  10. Books restituted to the descendants of the French politician Georges Mandel (15.07.2022)

    Restitution from Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and SLUB Dresden - Heirs of Georges Mandel receive books in Paris - Minister of State for Culture Roth: "Keeping the memory of the victims alive" The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK) and the Saxon State and University Library Dresden (SLUB) have