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New perspectives on inequalities in Latin America (15.01.2010)

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funds research project of the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität and the Ibero-American Institute of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding a joint project of

New building takes shape - topping-out ceremony for the storage depot of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation in Berlin-Friedrichshagen (28.01.2010)

Today, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is celebrating the topping-out ceremony for the first construction phase of the Foundation's new storage depot in Berlin-Friedrichshagen in the presence of Rainer Bomba, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Construction and Ingeborg Berggreen-Me

Main prize of the Europa Nostra Award (14.06.2010)

Last Thursday, the Neues Museum der Museumsinsel Berlin was honoured with one of the main prizes of the "European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award". The six "Grand Prix Laureates" were selected from a total of 139 projects submitted from 26 European countries. The jury was imp

Atlas returned to the Berlin State Library after being lost during the war (12.02.2010)

A few days ago, the Berlin State Library received back an atlas from the 17th century that had recently been found in the archives of the French Foreign Ministry. The head of the archive, Jean Mendelson, presented the work to the President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Hermann Parzin

Scientific research confirms art-scientific image analysis - A relief from the Egyptian Museum Berlin and the current DNA analysis of the mummy of Tutankhamun (17.02.2010)

The results of the DNA analysis of Tutankhamun's mummy just published by Zahi Hawass, Director General of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, have a direct connection to the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection in Berlin. One of the most famous exhibits is the relief "Walk in the Garden", c. 1330

Ten years UNESCO World Heritage Site Museum Island Berlin (09.03.2010)

Museum Island Berlin has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site for ten years. On 10 March 2000, the then UNESCO Secretary-General Koïchiro Matsuura presented the certificate of inclusion of the Museum Island in the World Heritage List to the Governing Mayor of Berlin and the President of the Prussian Cu

Culture at the Petersburg Dialogue under the direction of Hermann Parzinger (19.03.2010)

Hermann Parzinger, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, will be the new Co-Chairman of the Culture Working Group of the Petersburg Dialogue together with Mikhail Piotrovsky, Director of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. He was elected to this office as the successor to Klaus

Whereabouts of two faience vases in the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts secured (27.10.2010)

Two important faience vases from the Kunstgewerbemuseum of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin were recently identified as former Jewish property. The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation has reached an agreement with the heirs that the vases can remain in the Museum of Decorative Arts, where they have

Works of "Degenerate Art" believed lost recovered from Berlin bomb rubble (08.11.2010)

During excavations in the historic centre of Berlin, archaeologists from the state of Berlin have found eleven sculptures that were confiscated from German museums in 1937 as part of the National Socialist "Degenerate Art" campaign. They are bronzes by Edwin Scharff, Otto Baum, Marg Moll, Gustav Hei

Second issue of the SPK magazine, which has won international awards, has been published (30.06.2010)

The SPK magazine, first published in autumn 2009, is now in its second issue. second issue. The current issue focusses on the topic "Future". The first magazine won prizes in two of the most important international competitions in the public relations and corporate communications sector. At the "Int

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