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Human remains that were in the collections of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin were returned to Australia today, 5 December 2024. Together with the Australian Embassy, the Ethnological Museum organised a memorial service for the ancestors, who are now travelling home. They w

Now that the upper exhibition hall of the Neue Nationalgalerie at Berlin's Kulturforum has been restored to its former glory since December 2020, the keys to the completely renovated building will be handed over to the National Museums in Berlin and the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation on 29 Ap

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has today restituted 13 volumes from the holdings of the Berlin State Library to the Jewish Community of Vienna (IKG Vienna). The volumes in question were published between 1840 and 1914. Four volumes were formerly owned by the Jewish Community, the other ni

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted eight works of art to the heirs of Felicia Lachmann-Mosse. The works were part of the extensive art collection that her father, the Berlin publisher Rudolf Mosse, had built up since the 1880s. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation had come

The Berlin Egyptologist and Orientalist Prof Dr Verena Lepper has received one of the most important awards in the world of research, the ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). She now has access to funding for her research project "Localising 4000 Years of Cultural History. Te

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

At the end of last week, the Bundestag's Budget Committee approved funding for the "Museum 4.0 - Digital Strategies for the Museum of the Future" project. The project, which is being led by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, also involves the Deutsche Aus-wandererhaus Bremerhaven, the Deutsc

"Shared Knowledge" project analyses around 3,000 objects with guests from Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela - results on display in the new Berlin Palace Guests from Amazonia are currently researching 150 artefacts from the Rio Negro region in the Dahlem depots of the Ethnological Museum of the Nationa

With the Museum of the 20th Century, a building is being erected at the Kulturforum that will develop great charisma and at the same time fulfil the complex museum tasks to a high degree. The architecture that will be created in the coming years will be even more open to its surroundings and will fo

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has restituted five works from the collections of the National Museums in Berlin to the heirs of the art dealer Heinrich Ueberall. The works had come to the museums in the course of a purchase by the Dresdner Bank in 1935. Heinrich Ueberall died in Sachsenha