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The sculpture "Victoria of Calvatone" from the Berlin Collection of Classical Antiquities, which had been missing since the end of the war and was on display in the Altes Museum on Berlin's Museum Island until 1939, has resurfaced in Russia in the course of scientific research. This emerges from a r

As part of the exhibition and event project "Utopia Kulturforum", the St Matthew's Foundation, the Art Library, the Museum of Decorative Arts, the New National Gallery of the National Museums in Berlin, the Berlin State Library, the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation and the Ibero-American Institute

The Guelph Treasure has been the subject of an action for restitution in the United States since 2015. In 2022, the SPK's motion to dismiss the lawsuit was granted. The appellate court has now confirmed this decision. The Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) of the Staatliche Museen zu Ber

Twenty-seven projects organized by a variety of museums throughout Germany demonstrate the range of possibilities for digital cultural outreach At a show of work in progress held today in Berlin, institutions participating in the digital outreach project museum4punkt0 presented an overview of the ap

The long-time director of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin passed away on November 28 at the age of 93. In the Cold War era, Adriaan von Müller, who was appointed director of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte (Museum of Prehistory and Early History) in 1

In cooperation with the SPK and the Research Center for Material Culture of the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures, the German Lost Art Foundation is holding a digital conference on cultural assets from colonial contexts. The debate about returning cultural assets to former colonial areas is hi

Books from the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin and SLUB Dresden have been returned to the descendants of French politician Georges Mandel The Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK) and the Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (S

The full renovation of the Neue Nationalgalerie has received First Prize in the BDA Berlin (Bund Deutscher Architekten) awards. The BDA Berlin (Federation of German Architects, Berlin) announced its decision on January 24, 2022. An interdisciplinary jury awarded First Prize to the Neue Nationalgaler

ICOM has updated its Emergency Red List of Iraqi Cultural Objects at Risk. On January 14, 2016, the German version will be presented at the Archäologisches Zentrum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Illegal excavations and looting threaten cultural heritage across the globe. This has reached dramat

In the Humboldt Forum Magazine, curators and exhibition designers introduce their concepts for the presentation of the collections of the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art in the rebuilt Berlin Palace. The magazine also contains essays on the impact of colonialism on present day identi