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As part of a digitisation project, the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection of the National Museums in Berlin will make 6,000 texts available in an online database by autumn 2013. The project is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). It offers ancient history scholars as well as the

The Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, which has been on display at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart since September 2004, will continue to be presented there in the coming years. The current loan relationship, which was agreed for seven years and would have ended in autumn 2011, will

The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Biblioteka Narodowa - Polish National Library will cooperate in the future in the areas of processing and preserving the common cultural heritage and digitising their library collections. Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of t

The International Advisory Board Humboldt Forum met for the first time from 6 to 8 April 2011. The expert committee consists of around forty renowned museum experts and academics from all continents. Its purpose is to provide critical support for the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation's exhibitio

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

In response to the press release issued by the Central Council of the African Community, the Initiative of Black People in Germany and the NGO alliances "No Humboldt 21!" and "Genocide is not time-barred!" on 17 March 2014: "Federal government plans to deport human remains from the colonial era", th

The archaeological and ethnological collections of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin also contain human remains. These include bones, some of which have entered the collection in processed form (e.g. in the case of ethnological artefacts such as bone flutes) and some in unprocessed form (e.g. archaeol

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

A precious ivory jug from the early 18th century has been returned to the collection of the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts. The object had not returned from its storage location in Berlin after the Second World War and was long considered lost. The Prague Museum of Decorative Arts, which had acqui

According to the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzinger, the topping-out ceremony for the new Berlin Palace and the open building site days are a good opportunity to promote the outstanding collections on the art and culture of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the America