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On 25 February 2008, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation provided information about its activities and plans for the coming year. At the annual press conference, new projects, developments and exhibitions were also presented, reports were given on building projects and a review of 2007 was giv

From 10 to 13 April 2008, a conference on the Imperial Chamber Court will take place at the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin-Dahlem, attended by 40 lawyers, historians and archivists from Germany and abroad (Austria, Belgium, Netherlands). By organising this event, the G

Prof. Dr Stephan Waetzoldt died on 25 May 2008 at the age of 88. He was General Director of the Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz from 1965 to 1983. With foresight and skill, he turned the museums in West Berlin, scarred by the division of the city and its collections, back into a cornersto

The Berggruen Museum in Berlin-Charlottenburg is to be extended according to the plans of architects Kuehn Malvezzi. This was announced today as the result of a selection process. The extension is linked to over seventy high-calibre long-term loans that the Berggruen family is making available to th

The Speicherstadt for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin-Friedrichshagen The architects AV1 Architekten, Kaiserslautern, are the winners of the competition for the new depots and workshops of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin-Friedrichshagen. The j

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is not only responsible for preserving, maintaining and supplementing the cultural assets entrusted to it, but also, as the Foundation Act of 1957 states, "to ensure that these cultural assets are utilised for the interests of the general public in science a

At its meeting today, the Board of Trustees of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation appointed Dr Stefan Weber as the new Director of the Museum of Islamic Art at the National Museums in Berlin. From 1 February 2009, the 41-year-old will be the immediate successor to the current Director, Prof.

A new highlight enriches Berlin's cultural life: the Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection, which is being shown under the name "Surreal Worlds" in the eastern Stüler Building opposite the Museum Berggruen and Charlottenburg Palace. The "Dieter Scharf Collection in Memory of Otto Gerstenberg Foundation" has

Public museums, libraries and archives in Germany can now submit applications to the Provenance Research Centre to support provenance research projects. Funding totalling one million euros is available annually from the budget of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media for this

The Ernst Waldschmidt Prize has been awarded by the Ernst Waldschmidt Foundation at the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 1988 for scientifically valuable achievements in the field of Indology, particularly in Waldschmidt's areas of specialisation (Buddhism, Indian and Central Asian archae