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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

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

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently returned three Meissen porcelain groups from the Arnhold family's former collection to their legal successor, the company S.Bleichröder OHG i.L.. The pieces, which were confiscated due to persecution, were exhibited in the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the

The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation recently acquired Klaus F. Naumann's lacquer collection for the Museum of Asian Art. It comprises 55 high-ranking East Asian lacquer works that exemplify a central art genre of Japan, the Ryūkyū Islands and China. At its core is Japanese lacquer art, which i

After two days of intense discussion, the symposium "Verantwortung wahrnehmen / Taking responsibility", organised by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation and the Coordination Office for the Loss of Cultural Property to mark the tenth anniversary of the "Washington Principles" and sponsored by t

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

- The spoken word prevails - Salutation, The Neues Museum has been restored, that is a reason for great joy and it is like a miracle! Severely damaged by bombing during the Second World War, completely destroyed in parts and left as a ruin, exposed to wind and weather for many decades - and now it s

Commenting on the current restitution debate, Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, said: "As Norman Rosenthal rightly points out, the restitution of artworks cannot make up for the inconceivable crimes committed by the Nazi regime against the European Jews. Germ

The New Museum. On 16 October 2009, the Neues Museum will reopen after 70 years. The building, which was severely damaged in the Second World War and preserved as a ruin, has been restored over the last ten years according to plans by David Chipperfield and was handed over to the Prussian Cultural H

The Secretary General of the Goethe-Institut Hans-Georg Knopp and the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Hermann Parzinger signed a cooperation agreement in Berlin on 22 April 2009. The close cooperation between Germany's largest intermediary organisation for foreign cultural wor